The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Bailu (2019)

Tropical Storm Bailu peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 19, 2019 and August 26, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 979 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Bailu, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2019 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
August 19, 2019 to August 26, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Identifier
WP122019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 19, 00:0012.6N 135.1E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 06:0012.8N 134.7E15 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 12:0013.0N 134.3E15 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 18:0013.2N 134.0E15 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 00:0013.5N 133.8E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 06:0013.8N 133.6E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 12:0014.2N 133.4E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 18:0014.5N 133.0E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Aug 21, 00:0014.8N 132.5E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Aug 21, 06:0014.9N 131.8E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 12:0015.1N 130.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 18:0015.5N 130.1E30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 00:0015.7N 129.2E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0015.9N 128.4E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0016.7N 127.8E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0017.8N 127.6E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0018.3N 126.1E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0019.2N 125.3E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0019.9N 124.3E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0020.7N 122.9E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0021.5N 121.9E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0022.4N 120.7E60 kt979 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0022.8N 119.2E50 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0022.8N 117.9E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0023.8N 117.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0024.7N 115.9E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0024.9N 114.4E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0024.8N 113.4E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 00:0024.8N 112.2E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 06:0025.8N 111.3E1000 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2019

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.