The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Maliksi (2018)

Tropical Storm Maliksi peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between June 3, 2018 and June 12, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 974 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Maliksi, 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 3, 2018 to June 12, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
974 mb (28.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 267 km (166 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
270 nmi (500 km, 311 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi)
Overall size
320 nmi (593 km, 368 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
34 kt (39 mph)
Identifier
WP062018

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Jun 9, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 3, 18:009.7N 131.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 00:009.6N 131.9E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 06:009.8N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 12:009.9N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 18:0010.0N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 00:0010.1N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 06:0010.6N 132.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 12:0011.0N 132.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 18:0012.1N 131.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 00:0013.0N 131.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 06:0013.8N 130.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 12:0014.4N 129.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 18:0014.9N 129.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 00:0015.6N 127.0E20 kt1003 mbLow
Jun 7, 06:0015.6N 126.7E25 kt1002 mbLow
Jun 7, 12:0015.8N 126.4E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jun 7, 18:0016.5N 126.7E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0017.7N 127.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0019.0N 127.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0019.9N 126.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0020.7N 126.8E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0021.4N 126.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0022.3N 127.4E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0022.9N 128.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0024.1N 129.3E55 kt979 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0025.3N 130.7E60 kt974 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0026.4N 132.0E55 kt977 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0027.8N 134.2E50 kt979 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0029.2N 136.4E50 kt979 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0030.9N 138.5E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0032.9N 141.4E45 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0034.9N 144.5E45 kt976 mbExtratropical
Jun 11, 18:0036.9N 147.0E40 kt975 mbExtratropical
Jun 12, 00:0037.9N 149.8E984 mbExtratropical
Jun 12, 06:0038.8N 152.0E984 mbExtratropical
Jun 12, 12:0039.0N 155.4E992 mbExtratropical
Jun 12, 18:0038.8N 157.7E996 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.