The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Linfa (2020)

Tropical Storm Linfa peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between October 6, 2020 and October 12, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Linfa, 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
October 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP172020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 6, 18:0013.8N 125.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0013.8N 125.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0013.9N 124.8E1004 mbMixed
Oct 7, 12:0013.8N 124.3E1006 mbMixed
Oct 7, 18:0013.5N 123.7E1006 mbMixed
Oct 8, 00:0013.0N 122.4E1008 mbMixed
Oct 8, 06:0012.8N 121.2E1006 mbMixed
Oct 8, 12:0012.6N 119.5E1008 mbMixed
Oct 8, 18:0013.2N 118.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 9, 00:0013.2N 117.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 9, 06:0013.2N 116.8E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 9, 12:0013.1N 116.0E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 9, 18:0013.5N 115.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 00:0013.9N 114.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 06:0014.4N 113.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 12:0014.7N 112.0E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0014.8N 110.6E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0015.1N 109.3E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0015.2N 108.4E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0015.3N 107.7E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 18:0014.6N 107.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0014.4N 106.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0014.2N 106.7E1002 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.