Super Typhoon Maemi (2003)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

September 4, 2003 to September 16, 2003

Peak strength

Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)

Lowest pressure

885 mb (26.13 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

30.8

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)

Overall size

247 nmi (457 km, 284 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

37 kt (43 mph)

Identifier

WP152003

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 5, 12:00 UTC

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

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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 Maemi