Tropical Storm — Rota, Guam

2015-03-15 to 2015-03-16 · Rota, Guam

$50K

Property damage

Event narrative

Tropical Storm Bavi continued to travel west and eventually threatened the Marianas.

Upper-level wind shear caused the storm to decouple resulting in the low-level circulation passing across Guam on the night of the 15th.

On Rota, the highest sustained winds were recorded at the airport with a north wind of 35 mph being observed at 1752 ChST. The highest wind gust on Rota was 52 mph observed by an automated weather observing station at 1800 ChST. the lowest Sea Level Pressure recorded at the automated weather station was 995.6 hPa at 1800 ChST.

Wider weather episode

Tropical Storm Bavi (03W) moved across Micronesia between March 11th and March

16th. The storm did cause some damages across the region and may have sunk an 83-foot fishing vessel.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 579255. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.