The 2004 season

Super Typhoon Nanmadol (2004)

Super Typhoon Nanmadol reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between November 28, 2004 and December 4, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 910 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Nanmadol, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
November 28, 2004 to December 4, 2004
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
910 mb (26.87 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
320 nmi (593 km, 368 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
160 kt (184 mph)
Fastest the center moved
25 kt (29 mph)
Identifier
WP302004

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$50,000

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
$50,000
Events recorded
1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Guam00$50,0001

What was recorded

1 hurricane (typhoon).

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 28, 00:005.4N 153.1E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Nov 28, 06:005.6N 151.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Nov 28, 12:005.8N 150.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Nov 28, 18:006.0N 149.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 29, 00:006.3N 147.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 06:006.9N 146.0E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Nov 29, 12:007.1N 144.1E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Nov 29, 18:007.7N 142.7E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Nov 30, 00:008.5N 141.0E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Nov 30, 06:009.3N 139.1E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Nov 30, 12:0010.0N 137.1E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Nov 30, 18:0010.8N 135.0E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Dec 1, 00:0011.6N 132.8E105 kt938 mbTyphoon
Dec 1, 06:0012.3N 130.7E115 kt927 mbTyphoon
Dec 1, 12:0013.0N 128.6E125 kt916 mbTyphoon
Dec 1, 18:0013.7N 126.7E130 kt910 mbSuper typhoon
Dec 2, 00:0014.3N 125.0E130 kt910 mbSuper typhoon
Dec 2, 06:0014.9N 123.4E120 kt922 mbTyphoon
Dec 2, 12:0015.8N 121.9E115 kt927 mbTyphoon
Dec 2, 18:0017.0N 120.0E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Dec 3, 00:0017.9N 119.0E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Dec 3, 06:0019.3N 118.5E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Dec 3, 12:0020.2N 118.3E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Dec 3, 18:0021.3N 119.1E55 kt984 mbExtratropical
Dec 4, 00:0022.4N 120.2E45 kt991 mbExtratropical
Dec 4, 06:0023.2N 122.6E1000 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 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.