The 2002 season

Typhoon Noguri (2002)

Typhoon Noguri reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between June 3, 2002 and June 11, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 958 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Noguri. 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
June 3, 2002 to June 11, 2002
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
958 mb (28.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.3
Identifier
WP072002

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Jun 10, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 3, 12:0020.2N 112.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 3, 18:0019.9N 112.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 4, 00:0019.7N 112.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 4, 06:0019.6N 112.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 4, 12:0019.7N 112.7E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 4, 18:0019.9N 112.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 5, 00:0020.0N 113.1E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 5, 06:0020.1N 113.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 5, 12:0020.2N 113.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 5, 18:0020.2N 114.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jun 6, 00:0020.2N 114.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 6, 06:0020.3N 115.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 6, 12:0020.3N 116.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 6, 18:0020.3N 117.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 7, 00:0020.4N 118.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 7, 06:0020.5N 119.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 7, 12:0020.6N 120.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 7, 18:0020.7N 121.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0020.9N 122.1E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0021.2N 123.0E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0021.5N 123.8E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0022.0N 124.3E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Jun 9, 00:0022.7N 124.7E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Jun 9, 06:0023.2N 124.8E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Jun 9, 12:0023.8N 125.0E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Jun 9, 18:0024.7N 125.3E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jun 10, 00:0025.9N 126.1E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jun 10, 06:0027.2N 127.1E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Jun 10, 12:0028.6N 128.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0030.2N 130.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 11, 00:0032.5N 133.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jun 11, 06:0034.4N 135.8E999 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2002

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.