The 2021 season

Tropical Storm Kompasu (2021)

Tropical Storm Kompasu peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between October 7, 2021 and October 14, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 979 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kompasu, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2021 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 7, 2021 to October 14, 2021
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi)
Overall size
450 nmi (833 km, 518 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
70 kt (81 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP242021

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 7, 00:0013.7N 136.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0013.7N 135.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0013.8N 134.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0014.0N 134.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0014.1N 133.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0014.4N 132.9E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0014.5N 132.1E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0014.8N 131.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0015.9N 131.1E20 kt998 mbDisturbance
Oct 9, 06:0015.7N 130.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 12:0014.8N 129.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 18:0015.8N 129.0E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 00:0017.0N 128.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 06:0017.6N 127.9E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0018.0N 126.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0018.4N 125.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0018.5N 124.4E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0018.9N 123.0E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0018.8N 121.7E55 kt981 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0018.8N 120.5E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0018.7N 119.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0018.8N 117.1E60 kt979 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0018.8N 116.4E55 kt981 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0019.1N 114.5E50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0019.0N 112.7E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0019.2N 110.7E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0019.3N 109.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0019.2N 108.4E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0019.1N 107.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0019.5N 106.7E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 12:0019.4N 105.7E1004 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2021

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.