The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Mulan (2022)

Tropical Storm Mulan peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 8, 2022 and August 11, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mulan, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 8, 2022 to August 11, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
2022220N16110

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 8, 00:0016.3N 110.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0015.3N 111.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0015.4N 111.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0015.6N 112.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0016.2N 112.8E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0017.3N 113.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0018.4N 112.7E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0019.2N 111.9E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0020.0N 111.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0020.4N 109.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0020.6N 109.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0021.1N 108.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0021.5N 106.3E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0021.6N 104.5E1000 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.