Super Typhoon Wutip (2019)
Super Typhoon Wutip reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between February 18, 2019 and March 2, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 895 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Wutip, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- February 18, 2019 to March 2, 2019
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 145 kt (167 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 895 mb (26.43 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 894 km (556 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 31.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 12 nmi (22 km, 14 mi)
- Overall size
- 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 125 kt (144 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 17 kt (20 mph)
- Identifier
- WP022019
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 12:00 | 4.6N 162.8E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 18, 18:00 | 4.9N 161.3E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 19, 00:00 | 5.0N 159.7E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 19, 06:00 | 4.9N 158.4E | 25 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 19, 12:00 | 4.6N 157.0E | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 19, 18:00 | 4.6N 155.9E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 20, 00:00 | 4.7N 154.6E | 45 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 20, 06:00 | 5.0N 153.6E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 20, 12:00 | 5.3N 152.5E | 55 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 20, 18:00 | 5.8N 151.3E | 60 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 21, 00:00 | 6.2N 150.4E | 65 kt | 984 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 21, 06:00 | 6.6N 149.6E | 75 kt | 979 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 21, 12:00 | 7.1N 148.8E | 80 kt | 973 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 21, 18:00 | 7.7N 148.0E | 80 kt | 973 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 22, 00:00 | 8.3N 147.1E | 85 kt | 970 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 22, 06:00 | 9.1N 146.1E | 90 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 22, 12:00 | 9.9N 145.0E | 95 kt | 962 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 22, 18:00 | 10.2N 144.1E | 100 kt | 958 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 23, 00:00 | 10.7N 143.7E | 105 kt | 953 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 23, 06:00 | 11.4N 143.2E | 115 kt | 943 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 23, 12:00 | 12.0N 142.8E | 140 kt | 905 mb | Super typhoon |
| Feb 23, 18:00 | 12.4N 142.4E | 130 kt | 929 mb | Super typhoon |
| Feb 24, 00:00 | 12.6N 142.1E | 120 kt | 939 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 24, 06:00 | 12.9N 141.7E | 110 kt | 948 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 24, 12:00 | 13.0N 141.1E | 105 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 24, 18:00 | 13.1N 140.7E | 115 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 25, 00:00 | 13.4N 140.4E | 125 kt | 935 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 25, 06:00 | 13.8N 140.2E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| Feb 25, 12:00 | 14.2N 140.1E | 135 kt | 923 mb | Super typhoon |
| Feb 25, 18:00 | 14.6N 139.9E | 125 kt | 934 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 26, 00:00 | 14.9N 139.9E | 120 kt | 940 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 26, 06:00 | 15.2N 139.9E | 115 kt | 945 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 26, 12:00 | 15.4N 140.1E | 105 kt | 955 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 26, 18:00 | 15.6N 140.1E | 90 kt | 966 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 27, 00:00 | 15.8N 140.1E | 85 kt | 971 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 27, 06:00 | 16.2N 139.9E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Typhoon |
| Feb 27, 12:00 | 16.4N 139.0E | 50 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 27, 18:00 | 16.7N 137.8E | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Feb 28, 00:00 | 17.1N 136.7E | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 28, 06:00 | 17.5N 135.6E | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Feb 28, 12:00 | 18.1N 134.9E | 20 kt | 1011 mb | Disturbance |
| Feb 28, 18:00 | 18.5N 134.6E | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Mar 1, 00:00 | 19.0N 134.3E | 20 kt | 1010 mb | Disturbance |
| Mar 1, 06:00 | 19.4N 134.2E | 1010 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Mar 1, 12:00 | 19.7N 134.0E | 1012 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Mar 1, 18:00 | 19.6N 134.0E | 1010 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Mar 2, 00:00 | 19.4N 133.8E | 1010 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Mar 2, 06:00 | 18.9N 133.2E | 1008 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2019
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- Tropical Storm SepatWestern Pacific · 2019
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm MunWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm DanasWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm NariWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm WiphaWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon FranciscoWestern Pacific · 2019
- Super Typhoon LekimaWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon KrosaWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm BailuWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm PodulWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm KajikiWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon LinglingWestern Pacific · 2019
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2019
- Tropical Storm PeipahWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon TapahWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon MitagWestern Pacific · 2019
- Super Typhoon HagibisWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon NeoguriWestern Pacific · 2019
- Super Typhoon BualoiWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon Bulbul:MatmoWestern Pacific · 2019
- Super Typhoon HalongWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon NakriWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon FengshenWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon KalmaegiWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon Fung-WongWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon KammuriWestern Pacific · 2019
- Typhoon PhanfoneWestern Pacific · 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.