The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Noul (2020)

Tropical Storm Noul peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between September 14, 2020 and September 19, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Noul, 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
September 14, 2020 to September 19, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Identifier
WP132020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 14, 00:0011.0N 127.3E10 kt1014 mbDisturbance
Sep 14, 06:0011.6N 126.5E10 kt1012 mbDisturbance
Sep 14, 12:0012.4N 125.4E10 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Sep 14, 18:0012.6N 123.7E10 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 15, 00:0012.8N 122.0E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Sep 15, 06:0012.8N 120.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 15, 12:0012.7N 119.2E35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0012.8N 118.2E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0013.1N 117.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0013.6N 116.6E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0013.9N 116.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0014.3N 115.2E45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0014.7N 114.3E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0015.6N 113.1E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0016.1N 111.2E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0016.3N 110.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0016.6N 108.1E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0016.3N 105.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0016.1N 103.6E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0016.1N 102.2E15 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Sep 19, 00:0016.4N 100.5ETropical 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.