Typhoon Molave (2020)

Typhoon Molave reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between October 21, 2020 and October 29, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 952 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Molave, 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 21, 2020 to October 29, 2020
Peak strength: Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure: 952 mb (28.11 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 10.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 350 nmi (648 km, 403 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved: 15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier: WP212020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Oct 21, 18:00	8.7N 137.4E	15 kt	1009 mb	Disturbance
Oct 22, 00:00	9.1N 137.5E	15 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Oct 22, 06:00	9.5N 137.4E	20 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Oct 22, 12:00	9.8N 136.8E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Oct 22, 18:00	10.1N 136.2E	20 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Oct 23, 00:00	10.2N 135.1E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Oct 23, 06:00	10.4N 134.0E	20 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Oct 23, 12:00	11.3N 132.8E	20 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance
Oct 23, 18:00	11.8N 132.0E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Oct 24, 00:00	12.4N 131.2E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 24, 06:00	13.1N 130.0E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 24, 12:00	13.3N 128.9E	35 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 24, 18:00	13.4N 127.7E	40 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 25, 00:00	13.4N 126.4E	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 25, 06:00	13.4N 124.7E	65 kt	985 mb	Typhoon
Oct 25, 12:00	13.4N 123.1E	70 kt	984 mb	Typhoon
Oct 25, 18:00	13.1N 121.9E	75 kt	980 mb	Typhoon
Oct 26, 00:00	13.1N 120.4E	80 kt	977 mb	Typhoon
Oct 26, 06:00	13.4N 118.9E	85 kt	969 mb	Typhoon
Oct 26, 12:00	13.2N 117.7E	90 kt	966 mb	Typhoon
Oct 26, 18:00	13.3N 115.8E	90 kt	968 mb	Typhoon
Oct 27, 00:00	13.5N 114.5E	100 kt	958 mb	Typhoon
Oct 27, 06:00	13.5N 113.3E	105 kt	952 mb	Typhoon
Oct 27, 12:00	13.9N 111.9E	100 kt	957 mb	Typhoon
Oct 27, 18:00	14.2N 111.3E	100 kt	955 mb	Typhoon
Oct 28, 00:00	14.7N 109.8E	80 kt	975 mb	Typhoon
Oct 28, 06:00	15.2N 108.4E	70 kt	974 mb	Typhoon
Oct 28, 12:00	15.4N 107.3E	55 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Oct 28, 18:00	15.5N 106.3E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Oct 29, 00:00	15.5N 105.4E	15 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Oct 29, 06:00	15.4N 104.1E			Tropical 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.

Wikipedia article: Typhoon Molave