The 2026 season

Tropical Storm Chan-Hom (2026)

Tropical Storm Chan-Hom peaked at 51 kt in the Western Pacific between August 7, 2026 and August 12, 2026, with a lowest pressure of 976 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Chan-Hom, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2026 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 7, 2026 to August 12, 2026
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 51 kt (59 mph)
Lowest pressure
976 mb (28.82 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Identifier
WP142026

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 7, 00:0029.2N 160.8E45 kt987 mbNot reported
Aug 7, 06:0029.7N 160.4E39 kt987 mbNot reported
Aug 7, 12:0031.0N 159.8E29 kt987 mbNot reported
Aug 7, 18:0032.0N 158.1E29 kt990 mbNot reported
Aug 8, 00:0032.4N 156.5E35 kt990 mbNot reported
Aug 8, 06:0033.0N 154.9E35 kt993 mbNot reported
Aug 8, 12:0033.1N 153.2E39 kt991 mbNot reported
Aug 8, 18:0032.7N 151.7E39 kt988 mbNot reported
Aug 9, 00:0032.4N 151.0E45 kt987 mbNot reported
Aug 9, 06:0032.3N 150.7E39 kt987 mbNot reported
Aug 9, 12:0032.3N 150.7E35 kt990 mbNot reported
Aug 9, 18:0033.2N 150.2E35 kt989 mbNot reported
Aug 10, 00:0033.7N 149.7E39 kt986 mbNot reported
Aug 10, 06:0034.8N 148.8E39 kt985 mbNot reported
Aug 10, 12:0035.5N 147.9E45 kt981 mbNot reported
Aug 10, 18:0036.8N 145.9E45 kt980 mbNot reported
Aug 11, 00:0036.8N 143.7E51 kt976 mbNot reported
Aug 11, 06:0036.5N 142.0E39 kt982 mbNot reported
Aug 11, 12:0036.0N 140.0E35 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 11, 18:0035.8N 137.4E29 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 12, 00:0035.5N 135.8E25 kt998 mbNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 2026

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.