The 1995 season

Super Typhoon Kent (1995)

Super Typhoon Kent reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 24, 1995 and September 1, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Kent, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 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 24, 1995 to September 1, 1995
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
18.8
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
WP121995

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 24, 00:009.6N 133.7E15 ktNot reported
Aug 24, 06:009.8N 133.1E15 ktNot reported
Aug 24, 12:0010.2N 132.6E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0010.8N 131.9E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 25, 00:0011.5N 131.3E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 25, 06:0012.4N 130.8E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0013.1N 130.3E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0013.9N 129.7E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0014.7N 128.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0015.3N 128.1E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0015.7N 127.3E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0016.1N 126.8E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0016.6N 126.6E60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0016.9N 126.5E65 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0017.1N 126.4E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.3N 126.4E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.5N 126.3E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0017.8N 126.2E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0018.0N 126.0E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0018.2N 125.6E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0018.5N 125.1E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0018.7N 124.6E105 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0019.1N 124.0E130 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0019.6N 123.2E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0020.2N 122.1E125 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0020.6N 121.0E120 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0021.1N 119.6E115 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0021.6N 118.3E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0022.1N 116.7E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0022.6N 115.2E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0023.2N 113.5E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0023.9N 111.4E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0024.5N 109.4E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0024.9N 107.4E30 ktNot reported
Sep 1, 12:0025.3N 105.6E25 ktNot reported
Sep 1, 18:0025.3N 103.7E20 ktNot reported

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.