Super Typhoon Podul (2001)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

October 17, 2001 to October 29, 2001

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

898 mb (26.52 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 1072 km (666 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

36.5

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)

Overall size

210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

31 kt (36 mph)

Identifier

WP262001

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

$250,000

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 tropical storm.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression25 kt · 1004 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression25 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm CimaronWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm60 kt · 984 mb
• Typhoon ChebiWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3100 kt · 944 mb
• Typhoon DurianWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 175 kt · 967 mb
• Typhoon UtorWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 180 kt · 963 mb
• Tropical Storm TramiWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm40 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression25 kt · 1002 mb
• Typhoon Kong-ReyWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 285 kt · 958 mb
• Typhoon YutuWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 285 kt · 958 mb
• Typhoon TorajiWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3100 kt · 944 mb
• Typhoon Man-YiWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 4120 kt · 922 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm UsagiWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Typhoon PabukWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 290 kt · 954 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Depression30 kt · 998 mb
• Super Typhoon WutipWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 4130 kt · 910 mb
• Tropical Storm SepatWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm45 kt · 991 mb
• Tropical Storm FitowWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm45 kt · 991 mb
• Typhoon DanasWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3105 kt · 938 mb
• Typhoon NariWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3100 kt · 944 mb
• Typhoon VipaWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 175 kt · 967 mb
• Typhoon FranciscoWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3100 kt · 944 mb
• Typhoon LekimaWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 295 kt · 949 mb
• Typhoon KrosaWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 3105 kt · 938 mb
• Typhoon HaiyanWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 290 kt · 954 mb
• Typhoon LinglingWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 4115 kt · 927 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm KajikiWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2001Tropical Storm35 kt · 997 mb
• Super Typhoon FaxaiWestern Pacific · 2001 · 2 deathsCat 5155 kt · 879 mb
• Typhoon VameiWestern Pacific · 2001Cat 165 kt · 976 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.