The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Gaemi (2018)

Tropical Storm Gaemi peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between June 13, 2018 and June 21, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Gaemi, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2018 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
June 13, 2018 to June 21, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
170 nmi (315 km, 196 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
24 kt (28 mph)
Identifier
WP082018

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Jun 16, 00:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 13, 12:0021.6N 117.2E996 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0021.6N 117.6E996 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0021.6N 118.3E30 kt1000 mbLow
Jun 14, 06:0021.7N 119.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 14, 12:0022.3N 119.6E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jun 14, 18:0022.7N 120.2E35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0022.8N 120.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 06:0023.6N 122.0E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0024.9N 123.6E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0025.7N 124.8E40 kt993 mbSubtropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0026.3N 127.0E40 kt992 mbSubtropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0026.8N 129.2E45 kt990 mbSubtropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0027.2N 130.8E40 kt993 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 18:0028.2N 131.2E40 kt993 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 00:0028.5N 132.0E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 06:0029.3N 132.7E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 12:0030.0N 133.5E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 18:0030.5N 134.2E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 00:0031.1N 135.3E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 06:0031.7N 137.2E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 12:0032.0N 139.0E998 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 18:0032.6N 141.5E998 mbExtratropical
Jun 19, 00:0033.7N 144.0E998 mbExtratropical
Jun 19, 06:0034.8N 146.3E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 19, 12:0035.8N 148.2E992 mbExtratropical
Jun 19, 18:0036.1N 150.2E994 mbExtratropical
Jun 20, 00:0036.7N 151.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jun 20, 06:0037.3N 151.5E998 mbExtratropical
Jun 20, 12:0038.1N 152.1E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 20, 18:0038.7N 152.5E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 00:0039.3N 153.2E1002 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 06:0040.0N 154.1E1002 mbExtratropical
Jun 21, 12:0041.0N 154.1E998 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2018

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.