The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Wipha (2019)

Tropical Storm Wipha peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between July 29, 2019 and August 4, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Wipha, 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
July 29, 2019 to August 4, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
WP082019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 29, 00:0015.9N 117.0E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jul 29, 06:0016.4N 116.8E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jul 29, 12:0016.8N 116.6E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jul 29, 18:0017.2N 116.0E15 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Jul 30, 00:0017.5N 115.4E15 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Jul 30, 06:0017.7N 114.8E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Jul 30, 12:0017.9N 114.3E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0018.2N 114.0E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0018.6N 113.5E30 kt995 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0019.1N 112.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0019.3N 112.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0019.7N 111.5E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0020.1N 111.1E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0020.8N 111.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0021.4N 110.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0021.2N 109.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0021.2N 109.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0021.4N 109.0E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0021.5N 108.4E55 kt983 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0021.4N 107.4E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0021.3N 106.7E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0021.0N 106.0E30 kt995 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 12:0020.6N 105.2E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 3, 18:0020.2N 104.4E20 kt997 mbDisturbance
Aug 4, 00:0020.7N 102.8E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0020.5N 102.1E998 mbTropical storm

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.