The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Higos (2020)

Tropical Storm Higos peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 16, 2020 and August 20, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Higos, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 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 16, 2020 to August 20, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
WP082020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 16, 06:0017.4N 123.5E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 12:0017.9N 123.4E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 16, 18:0018.4N 123.0E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 00:0019.0N 121.9E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 06:0019.5N 120.7E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 12:0019.7N 119.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 18:0020.0N 118.3E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 00:0020.4N 116.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0020.8N 115.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0021.2N 114.7E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0021.7N 113.8E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0022.3N 113.0E55 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0022.8N 112.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0023.1N 111.0E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 18:0024.0N 109.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0025.1N 109.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0026.0N 108.7E1006 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2020

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.