Typhoon Meari (2004)
Typhoon Meari reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 18, 2004 and October 2, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 916 mb, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Typhoon Meari, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2004 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- September 18, 2004 to October 2, 2004
- Peak strength
- Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 916 mb (27.05 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 28.6
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
- Overall size
- 130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 145 kt (167 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 33 kt (38 mph)
- Identifier
- WP252004
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
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
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guam | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 12:00 | 12.9N 153.4E | 15 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 18, 18:00 | 13.0N 151.8E | 15 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 19, 00:00 | 13.1N 150.2E | 15 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 19, 06:00 | 13.0N 148.6E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 19, 12:00 | 13.0N 147.2E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 19, 18:00 | 12.9N 145.9E | 25 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 20, 00:00 | 12.6N 145.1E | 25 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 20, 06:00 | 12.6N 144.3E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 20, 12:00 | 12.6N 143.5E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 20, 18:00 | 12.8N 142.6E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 21, 00:00 | 13.2N 141.9E | 40 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 21, 06:00 | 13.7N 141.3E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 21, 12:00 | 14.2N 140.7E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 21, 18:00 | 14.3N 139.9E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 22, 00:00 | 15.0N 139.5E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 22, 06:00 | 15.6N 139.0E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 22, 12:00 | 16.1N 138.5E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 22, 18:00 | 16.6N 138.0E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 23, 00:00 | 17.1N 137.5E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 23, 06:00 | 17.8N 136.8E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 23, 12:00 | 18.3N 135.9E | 100 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 23, 18:00 | 18.8N 135.1E | 105 kt | 938 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 24, 00:00 | 19.4N 134.2E | 120 kt | 922 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 24, 06:00 | 20.1N 133.3E | 125 kt | 916 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 24, 12:00 | 20.6N 132.4E | 125 kt | 916 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 24, 18:00 | 21.4N 131.8E | 120 kt | 922 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 25, 00:00 | 22.3N 131.0E | 120 kt | 922 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 25, 06:00 | 23.6N 130.2E | 115 kt | 927 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 25, 12:00 | 24.5N 129.1E | 110 kt | 933 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 25, 18:00 | 25.2N 127.9E | 115 kt | 927 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 26, 00:00 | 25.6N 126.6E | 105 kt | 938 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 26, 06:00 | 25.8N 125.6E | 100 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 26, 12:00 | 25.8N 125.1E | 100 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 26, 18:00 | 26.0N 124.8E | 105 kt | 938 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 27, 00:00 | 26.1N 124.9E | 105 kt | 938 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 27, 06:00 | 26.4N 125.0E | 105 kt | 938 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 27, 12:00 | 26.9N 125.5E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 27, 18:00 | 27.4N 126.0E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 28, 00:00 | 28.0N 126.5E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 28, 06:00 | 29.0N 127.1E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 28, 12:00 | 30.1N 127.9E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 28, 18:00 | 30.9N 129.1E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 29, 00:00 | 31.8N 130.5E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 29, 06:00 | 32.9N 132.9E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 12:00 | 34.5N 135.0E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 29, 18:00 | 37.2N 137.8E | 40 kt | 994 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 30, 00:00 | 38.5N 142.5E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 30, 06:00 | 39.0N 143.4E | 1000 mb | Mixed | |
| Sep 30, 12:00 | 38.4N 145.0E | 1002 mb | Mixed | |
| Sep 30, 18:00 | 37.5N 146.4E | 1004 mb | Mixed | |
| Oct 1, 00:00 | 36.7N 148.0E | 1004 mb | Mixed | |
| Oct 1, 06:00 | 36.1N 150.1E | 1004 mb | Mixed | |
| Oct 1, 12:00 | 36.1N 151.1E | 1006 mb | Mixed | |
| Oct 1, 18:00 | 36.2N 151.9E | 1006 mb | Mixed | |
| Oct 2, 00:00 | 36.1N 152.2E | 1008 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 2, 06:00 | 36.0N 152.7E | 1012 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 2, 12:00 | 34.3N 152.4E | 1014 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 2, 18:00 | 32.1N 152.9E | 1014 mb | Extratropical |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2004
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2004
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon SudalWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon NidaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm OmaisWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon ConsonWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon ChanthuWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon DianmuWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon MindulleWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon TingtingWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm KompasuWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon NamtheunWestern Pacific · 2004
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm MalouWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon MerantiWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon RananimWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm MalakasWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon MegiWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon ChabaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon AereWestern Pacific · 2004
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon SongdaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm SarikaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm HaimaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon TokageWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon Nock-TenWestern Pacific · 2004
- Typhoon MuifaWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm MerbokWestern Pacific · 2004
- Super Typhoon NanmadolWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm TalasWestern Pacific · 2004
- Tropical Storm NoruWestern Pacific · 2004
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.