The 1995 season

Super Typhoon Angela (1995)

Super Typhoon Angela reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between October 20, 1995 and November 7, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 910 mb, and made landfall. It killed 936 people, as Wikidata records it.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Angela. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 20, 1995 to November 7, 1995
Peak strength
Category 5, 155 kt (178 mph)
Lowest pressure
910 mb (26.87 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
48.6
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
WP291995

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Oct 26, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

936 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 20, 06:005.0N 176.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 20, 12:005.0N 175.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 20, 18:005.0N 173.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 21, 00:005.2N 172.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 21, 06:005.6N 170.7E15 ktNot reported
Oct 21, 12:006.1N 169.4E15 ktNot reported
Oct 21, 18:006.5N 168.3E15 ktNot reported
Oct 22, 00:007.0N 167.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 22, 06:007.3N 165.7E15 ktNot reported
Oct 22, 12:007.5N 164.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 22, 18:007.7N 163.4E15 ktNot reported
Oct 23, 00:007.9N 161.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 23, 06:008.1N 160.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 23, 12:008.4N 158.3E15 ktNot reported
Oct 23, 18:008.7N 156.3E15 ktNot reported
Oct 24, 00:009.0N 154.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 24, 06:009.3N 152.9E20 ktNot reported
Oct 24, 12:009.7N 151.4E20 ktNot reported
Oct 24, 18:0010.0N 150.0E20 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 00:0010.1N 149.0E20 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 06:0010.2N 148.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 12:0010.2N 147.5E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0010.2N 146.5E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0010.4N 145.4E35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0010.9N 144.3E40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0011.4N 143.2E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0011.8N 142.2E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0012.1N 141.6E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0012.3N 140.9E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0012.5N 140.4E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0012.8N 139.7E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0013.0N 138.9E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0013.1N 138.2E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0012.9N 137.9E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0012.7N 137.9E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0012.7N 138.0E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0012.5N 138.0E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0012.1N 137.9E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0011.8N 137.5E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0011.7N 136.6E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0011.7N 135.9E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0011.7N 135.1E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0011.8N 134.3E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0011.9N 133.4E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0012.0N 132.4E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0012.2N 131.3E115 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0012.4N 130.4E135 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0012.7N 129.6E155 kt930 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0013.4N 128.9E155 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0014.0N 128.1E155 kt915 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0014.3N 127.0E155 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0014.2N 126.0E155 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0014.2N 125.1E155 kt910 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0014.1N 124.1E155 kt920 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0014.1N 123.1E140 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0014.3N 121.6E140 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0014.5N 120.1E120 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0014.6N 119.0E125 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0014.7N 118.0E125 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0014.8N 116.9E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0014.9N 115.9E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0015.0N 114.9E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0015.2N 113.9E115 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0015.6N 112.9E110 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0016.1N 112.0E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0016.4N 111.5E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0016.8N 110.9E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0017.2N 110.3E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0017.6N 109.5E55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0018.1N 108.7E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0018.6N 108.2E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0019.2N 108.0E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0019.8N 107.5E15 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0019.8N 106.8E15 kt1014 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1995

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.