The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Podul (2019)

Tropical Storm Podul peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between August 24, 2019 and August 31, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Podul, 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 24, 2019 to August 31, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.0
Identifier
WP132019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 24, 06:008.4N 142.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:008.1N 140.6E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 24, 18:008.3N 139.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 00:008.7N 138.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 06:009.2N 138.0E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 12:0010.4N 136.8E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 18:0011.7N 135.3E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 00:0012.8N 133.7E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 06:0013.3N 131.9E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 12:0013.7N 129.6E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 18:0014.3N 128.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 00:0014.7N 126.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 06:0015.2N 124.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 12:0016.0N 122.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0016.3N 120.6E25 kt999 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0016.7N 118.0E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0016.8N 116.4E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0017.1N 114.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0017.3N 113.2E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0017.5N 111.6E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0017.5N 109.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0017.7N 108.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0017.2N 106.4E30 kt995 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 00:0016.5N 104.5E20 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Aug 30, 06:0016.6N 103.6E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Aug 30, 12:0016.8N 103.0E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 30, 18:0017.3N 102.5E15 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 31, 00:0017.9N 102.1E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance

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.