Tropical Storm Megi (2022)
Tropical Storm Megi peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between April 8, 2022 and April 13, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall. It killed 214 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Megi, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- April 8, 2022 to April 13, 2022
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 996 mb (29.41 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 0.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
- Overall size
- 140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 11 kt (13 mph)
- Identifier
- WP032022
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
214 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:00 | 10.5N 127.5E | 15 kt | 1010 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 8, 18:00 | 10.6N 127.1E | 20 kt | 1003 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 9, 00:00 | 10.7N 126.9E | 25 kt | 1003 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 9, 06:00 | 10.8N 126.7E | 25 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 9, 12:00 | 10.9N 126.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 9, 18:00 | 10.7N 126.4E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 00:00 | 10.7N 126.0E | 40 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 06:00 | 10.8N 125.6E | 35 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 12:00 | 10.8N 125.2E | 35 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 18:00 | 10.9N 124.7E | 25 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 11, 00:00 | 11.0N 124.3E | 25 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 11, 06:00 | 11.2N 123.8E | 25 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 11, 12:00 | 11.4N 124.0E | 25 kt | 999 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 11, 18:00 | 11.4N 124.5E | 20 kt | 1001 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 12, 00:00 | 11.2N 124.8E | 15 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 12, 06:00 | 11.0N 125.2E | 20 kt | 1002 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 12, 12:00 | 10.6N 126.0E | 20 kt | 1002 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 12, 18:00 | 10.3N 126.7E | 20 kt | 1003 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 13, 00:00 | 10.2N 127.4E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 13, 06:00 | 9.9N 128.4E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2022
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon MalakasWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon ChabaWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm AereWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm SongdaWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm TrasesWestern Pacific · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm MulanWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm MeariWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon TokageWestern Pacific · 2022
- Super Typhoon HinnamnorWestern Pacific · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon MuifaWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon MerbokWestern Pacific · 2022
- Super Typhoon NanmadolWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm TalasWestern Pacific · 2022
- Super Typhoon NoruWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon KulapWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon RokeWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm HaitangWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon NesatWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm SoncaWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm HaitangWestern Pacific · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2022
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2022
- Typhoon NalgaeWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm BanyanWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm YamanekoWestern Pacific · 2022
- Tropical Storm PakharWestern Pacific · 2022
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.