The 2001 season

Typhoon Danas (2001)

Typhoon Danas reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 3, 2001 and September 12, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 938 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Danas, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 3, 2001 to September 12, 2001
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
938 mb (27.70 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
23.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
31 kt (36 mph)
Identifier
WP192001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 3, 00:0018.9N 156.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 06:0019.0N 155.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 12:0018.8N 154.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0018.5N 153.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0018.5N 152.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0018.6N 152.1E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0018.8N 151.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0019.2N 151.3E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 00:0019.9N 151.0E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 06:0020.7N 150.8E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 12:0021.6N 150.7E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 18:0022.4N 150.5E80 kt965 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 00:0023.0N 150.5E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 06:0023.7N 150.5E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 12:0024.7N 150.2E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 18:0025.5N 149.5E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 00:0026.3N 148.7E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 06:0027.3N 147.6E105 kt938 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 12:0027.8N 146.2E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 18:0028.3N 144.9E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 8, 00:0028.4N 143.6E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 8, 06:0028.3N 142.6E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 8, 12:0028.4N 141.9E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 8, 18:0028.7N 141.5E105 kt938 mbTyphoon
Sep 9, 00:0029.7N 140.6E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 9, 06:0030.5N 139.2E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 9, 12:0031.1N 138.4E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 9, 18:0031.8N 137.7E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 10, 00:0032.5N 137.4E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 10, 06:0033.1N 137.5E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 10, 12:0033.6N 137.8E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 10, 18:0034.2N 138.5E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 11, 00:0035.2N 139.5E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
Sep 11, 06:0036.4N 140.5E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Sep 11, 12:0037.6N 141.9E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0039.5N 143.6E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0041.9N 145.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0044.4N 148.2E994 mbMixed
Sep 12, 12:0045.3N 149.7E998 mbMixed
Sep 12, 18:0045.9N 152.4E998 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2001

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.