Super Typhoon Orchid (1994)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

September 16, 1994 to October 2, 1994

Peak strength

Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)

Lowest pressure

925 mb (27.32 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

40.3

Fastest the center moved

29 kt (33 mph)

Identifier

WP281994

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 19, 12:00 UTC

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression25 kt
• Typhoon OwenWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon PageWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 290 kt · 965 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm RussWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm55 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm SharonWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression30 kt
• Typhoon TimWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4125 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm VanessaWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Typhoon ZekeWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 165 kt · 985 mb
• Super Typhoon WaltWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4130 kt · 915 mb
• Tropical Storm YunyaWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm AmyWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm40 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm BrendanWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm50 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm CaitlinWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon DougWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 5140 kt · 925 mb
• Typhoon EllieWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 180 kt · 965 mb
• Super Typhoon FredWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4130 kt · 925 mb
• Typhoon GladysWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 3105 kt · 955 mb
• Tropical Storm HarryWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Typhoon IvyWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 175 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Storm JoelWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Typhoon KinnaWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 285 kt · 960 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm LukeWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Super Typhoon MelissaWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4135 kt · 910 mb
• Tropical Storm NatWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm45 kt · 992 mb
• Typhoon PatWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 295 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm Pat:RuthWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm50 kt · 992 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Depression PatWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Depression992 mb
• Typhoon SethWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4120 kt · 910 mb
• Typhoon VerneWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4115 kt · 950 mb
• Typhoon TeresaWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 180 kt · 955 mb
• Typhoon WildaWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4125 kt · 935 mb
• Super Typhoon ZeldaWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4135 kt · 910 mb
• Typhoon AxelWestern Pacific · 1994Cat 4115 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Storm BobbieWestern Pacific · 1994Tropical Storm50 kt · 972 mb

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.

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.