The 2018 season

Super Typhoon Trami (2018)

Super Typhoon Trami reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 20, 2018 and October 3, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 914 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Trami, 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
September 20, 2018 to October 3, 2018
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
914 mb (26.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
34.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
92 nmi (170 km, 106 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
22 nmi (41 km, 25 mi)
Overall size
450 nmi (833 km, 518 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
170 kt (196 mph)
Fastest the center moved
58 kt (67 mph)
Identifier
WP282018

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 20, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 20, 06:0012.9N 146.2E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Sep 20, 12:0013.3N 145.6E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Sep 20, 18:0013.8N 145.1E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 00:0014.4N 144.3E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 06:0014.9N 143.4E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0015.4N 142.4E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0015.8N 141.4E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0016.2N 140.3E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0016.7N 138.9E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0016.8N 137.5E60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0016.8N 136.3E70 kt982 mbTyphoon
Sep 23, 00:0016.9N 135.1E80 kt975 mbTyphoon
Sep 23, 06:0017.3N 134.2E100 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 23, 12:0017.5N 133.3E115 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 23, 18:0018.0N 132.2E120 kt938 mbTyphoon
Sep 24, 00:0018.5N 131.2E125 kt933 mbTyphoon
Sep 24, 06:0018.9N 130.5E130 kt927 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 24, 12:0019.3N 129.7E135 kt920 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 24, 18:0019.5N 129.0E140 kt914 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 00:0019.6N 128.8E135 kt919 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 06:0019.8N 128.9E130 kt921 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 12:0020.0N 128.9E120 kt930 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0020.3N 128.9E110 kt943 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0020.6N 129.0E110 kt942 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0021.0N 129.2E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0021.2N 129.2E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 18:0021.4N 129.2E90 kt953 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 00:0021.5N 129.2E90 kt955 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 06:0021.7N 129.1E90 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 12:0022.0N 128.8E90 kt951 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 18:0022.3N 128.4E90 kt953 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 00:0022.6N 127.9E95 kt951 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 06:0023.1N 127.4E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 12:0023.8N 127.0E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 18:0024.7N 126.7E95 kt951 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 00:0025.5N 126.7E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 06:0026.5N 127.4E90 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 12:0027.9N 128.3E90 kt953 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 18:0029.2N 129.5E85 kt957 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 00:0030.6N 131.1E80 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 06:0032.1N 133.2E75 kt960 mbTyphoon
Sep 30, 12:0034.2N 136.0E70 kt959 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0037.8N 140.6E60 kt964 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 00:0041.4N 144.2E55 kt967 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 06:0044.3N 150.7E970 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 12:0047.6N 157.6E970 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0050.2N 163.2E968 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0052.2N 167.4E968 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0053.8N 171.1E966 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0055.6N 173.8E964 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 18:0056.6N 174.8E960 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 00:0057.0N 174.5E956 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 06:0056.2N 175.5E956 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 12:0055.2N 179.9E956 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 18:0055.3N 184.8EExtratropical

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.