Tropical Storm Rumbia (2018)
Tropical Storm Rumbia peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 14, 2018 and August 20, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb, and made landfall. It killed 53 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Rumbia, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- August 14, 2018 to August 20, 2018
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 978 mb (28.88 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
- Overall size
- 220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 29 kt (33 mph)
- Identifier
- WP212018
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
53 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 00:00 | 23.6N 127.7E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Aug 14, 06:00 | 24.4N 127.5E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Aug 14, 12:00 | 25.2N 127.5E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Aug 14, 18:00 | 26.1N 127.5E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 15, 00:00 | 27.1N 127.3E | 30 kt | 997 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 15, 06:00 | 27.9N 126.9E | 30 kt | 993 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 15, 12:00 | 29.0N 125.9E | 35 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 15, 18:00 | 29.7N 125.2E | 35 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 00:00 | 29.9N 124.7E | 40 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 06:00 | 30.1N 124.1E | 40 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 12:00 | 30.3N 123.0E | 45 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 16, 18:00 | 30.7N 121.8E | 50 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 17, 00:00 | 31.3N 120.5E | 45 kt | 981 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 17, 06:00 | 31.6N 118.7E | 40 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 17, 12:00 | 31.6N 117.2E | 35 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 17, 18:00 | 31.9N 116.2E | 30 kt | 990 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 18, 00:00 | 32.3N 115.7E | 25 kt | 995 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 18, 06:00 | 32.9N 115.1E | 20 kt | 995 mb | Disturbance |
| Aug 18, 12:00 | 32.8N 114.5E | 994 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 18, 18:00 | 33.1N 114.4E | 996 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 19, 00:00 | 33.4N 114.7E | 998 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 19, 06:00 | 33.8N 115.3E | 998 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 19, 12:00 | 35.5N 116.6E | 998 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 19, 18:00 | 37.4N 118.0E | Tropical storm | ||
| Aug 20, 00:00 | 37.9N 119.6E | Extratropical | ||
| Aug 20, 06:00 | 38.1N 121.5E | Extratropical | ||
| Aug 20, 12:00 | 39.0N 123.8E | Extratropical | ||
| Aug 20, 18:00 | 40.8N 126.6E | Extratropical |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2018
- Tropical Storm BolavenWestern Pacific · 2018 · 4 deaths
- Tropical Storm SanbaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon JelawatWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm EwiniarWestern Pacific · 2018 · 5 deaths
- Tropical Storm MaliksiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm GaemiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon PrapiroonWestern Pacific · 2018 · 3 deaths
- Super Typhoon MariaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm Son-TinhWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm AmpilWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon WukongWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon JongdariWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon ShanshanWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm YagiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm BebincaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon LeepiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon SoulikWestern Pacific · 2018 · 86 deaths
- Typhoon CimaronWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon JebiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon MangkhutWestern Pacific · 2018 · 59 deaths
- Tropical Storm BarijatWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon TramiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon Kong-ReyWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon YutuWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon UsagiWestern Pacific · 2018 · 4 deaths
- Tropical Depression TorajiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon Man-YiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm PabukWestern Pacific · 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.