The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Nangka (2020)

Tropical Storm Nangka peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between October 11, 2020 and October 14, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nangka, 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 11, 2020 to October 14, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Identifier
WP182020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 11, 00:0016.9N 119.7E15 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 11, 06:0017.1N 119.2E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Oct 11, 12:0017.3N 118.8E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Oct 11, 18:0017.5N 118.2E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 00:0017.8N 117.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 06:0017.9N 115.7E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0018.1N 114.5E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0018.4N 113.4E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0018.6N 112.1E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0018.8N 111.2E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0019.0N 110.5E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0019.8N 108.8E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0019.9N 107.7E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0020.0N 106.6E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0020.0N 105.4E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance

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.