The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Sanba (2018)

Tropical Storm Sanba peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between February 8, 2018 and February 16, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sanba, 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
February 8, 2018 to February 16, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
WP022018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 8, 00:008.1N 150.8E1006 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 06:009.5N 149.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 8, 12:0010.2N 148.8E20 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Feb 8, 18:0010.5N 147.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 9, 00:0010.6N 147.1E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Feb 9, 06:0010.5N 146.0E15 kt1009 mbTropical wave
Feb 9, 12:0010.1N 145.1E20 kt1008 mbTropical wave
Feb 9, 18:009.2N 144.3E20 kt1007 mbTropical wave
Feb 10, 00:008.2N 143.5E25 kt1006 mbTropical wave
Feb 10, 06:007.0N 141.7E25 kt1005 mbTropical wave
Feb 10, 12:006.4N 140.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 10, 18:006.4N 138.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 11, 00:006.6N 137.4E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 11, 06:006.9N 135.9E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 11, 12:007.1N 134.4E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 11, 18:006.8N 132.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 12, 00:006.9N 132.0E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 12, 06:007.1N 130.6E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 12, 12:008.1N 129.0E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 12, 18:009.0N 127.3E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 13, 00:009.6N 126.1E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 13, 06:009.8N 124.9E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Feb 13, 12:009.3N 123.3E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Feb 13, 18:008.8N 121.8E20 kt1009 mbTropical wave
Feb 14, 00:008.4N 120.4E20 kt1009 mbTropical wave
Feb 14, 06:007.7N 120.0E25 kt1007 mbLow
Feb 14, 12:007.6N 119.8E25 kt1007 mbLow
Feb 14, 18:007.8N 119.9E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Feb 15, 00:008.0N 119.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 15, 06:008.7N 119.2E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Feb 15, 12:009.1N 118.2E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Feb 15, 18:009.3N 117.4E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Feb 16, 00:009.8N 116.1E1012 mbMixed
Feb 16, 06:009.9N 115.7E1010 mbMixed

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.