Super Typhoon Saomai (2000)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 31, 2000 to September 19, 2000

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

925 mb (27.32 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

39.3

Fastest the center moved

29 kt (33 mph)

Identifier

WP222000

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

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

$600,000

Crop damage

$50,000

Events recorded

4 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

4 tropical storm.

• Super Typhoon DamreyWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 5155 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm LongwangWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm40 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression
• Typhoon KirogiWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 4115 kt · 940 mb
• Typhoon Kai-TakWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 175 kt · 960 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm TembinWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm45 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm BolavenWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm50 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon JelawatWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 4125 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt
• Typhoon EwiniarWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 175 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm WeneWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression25 kt
• Super Typhoon BilisWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 5140 kt · 920 mb
• Tropical Storm KaemiWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm45 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon PrapiroonWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 175 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm MariaWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm55 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon WukongWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 295 kt · 955 mb
• Tropical Storm BophaWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm55 kt · 988 mb
• Typhoon SonamuWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon ShanshanWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 4135 kt · 925 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm35 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm40 kt
• Typhoon YagiWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 3105 kt · 965 mb
• Typhoon XangsaneWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 290 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon BebincaWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 285 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm RumbiaWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Storm55 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Depression RumbiaWestern Pacific · 2000Tropical Depression
• Typhoon SoulikWestern Pacific · 2000Cat 3110 kt · 955 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.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Saomai