Tropical Storm Pakhar (2022)

Tropical Storm Pakhar peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between December 8, 2022 and December 13, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Pakhar, 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: December 8, 2022 to December 13, 2022
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure: 993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 34 km (21 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 1.1
Identifier: WP292022

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 8, 00:00	6.4N 133.1E	15 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Dec 8, 06:00	6.8N 132.7E	15 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Dec 8, 12:00	7.3N 132.4E	15 kt	1008 mb	Disturbance
Dec 8, 18:00	8.2N 130.5E	15 kt	1005 mb	Disturbance
Dec 9, 00:00	9.3N 128.2E	15 kt	1001 mb	Disturbance
Dec 9, 06:00	10.7N 127.2E	15 kt	1001 mb	Disturbance
Dec 9, 12:00	11.9N 126.5E	15 kt	1000 mb	Disturbance
Dec 9, 18:00	12.9N 125.6E	15 kt	1000 mb	Disturbance
Dec 10, 00:00	14.0N 124.5E	20 kt	1000 mb	Disturbance
Dec 10, 06:00	15.0N 124.0E	20 kt	1003 mb	Disturbance
Dec 10, 12:00	16.0N 125.0E	25 kt	998 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 10, 18:00	16.4N 125.5E	30 kt	995 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 00:00	16.8N 125.7E	30 kt	995 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 06:00	17.5N 126.2E	35 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 12:00	18.3N 126.7E	45 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 18:00	19.2N 128.4E	50 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 00:00	19.6N 129.5E	50 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 06:00	20.2N 130.7E	45 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 12:00	19.9N 130.6E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	19.1N 131.2E	25 kt	997 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 13, 00:00	18.6N 131.2E	20 kt	1002 mb	Disturbance
Dec 13, 06:00	18.0N 131.2E			Tropical storm

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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.