The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Mona (2019)

Tropical Storm Mona peaked at 50 kt in the South Pacific between December 31, 2018 and January 9, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mona, 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
South Pacific
Dates
December 31, 2018 to January 9, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 22 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Identifier
SH092019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 31, 18:0010.2S 161.8E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jan 1, 00:009.6S 164.4E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Jan 1, 06:008.6S 166.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 1, 12:008.0S 168.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 1, 18:007.2S 170.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 2, 00:007.0S 173.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 2, 06:008.0S 175.4E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 12:009.2S 177.1E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 18:0010.6S 177.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 00:0011.4S 178.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 06:0012.5S 178.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 12:0013.6S 177.8E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 18:0014.5S 177.5E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 00:0014.8S 177.2E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 06:0014.6S 176.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 12:0014.1S 176.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 18:0013.6S 176.2E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jan 5, 00:0013.6S 176.5E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jan 5, 06:0013.6S 176.7E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Jan 5, 12:0013.8S 177.3E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Jan 5, 18:0014.1S 178.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 00:0014.5S 179.3E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 06:0015.1S 179.0W50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 12:0016.4S 177.8W50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0017.5S 177.2W45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 00:0018.7S 177.2W45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 06:0019.4S 177.6W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0020.0S 178.3W35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0020.4S 178.4W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 00:0020.9S 178.5W25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 06:0021.1S 178.9W25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 12:0021.4S 179.2W25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 18:0021.7S 179.6W20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 00:0022.1S 179.9E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 06:0022.3S 179.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance

Other South 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.