Tropical Storm Noru (2004)
Tropical Storm Noru peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between December 16, 2004 and December 23, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Noru, 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
- December 16, 2004 to December 23, 2004
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 984 mb (29.06 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 1482 km (921 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 2.8
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
- Overall size
- 80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 32 kt (37 mph)
- Identifier
- WP322004
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 18:00 | 10.1N 154.3E | 15 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 17, 00:00 | 11.1N 154.0E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 17, 06:00 | 12.0N 153.6E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 17, 12:00 | 12.7N 152.9E | 25 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 17, 18:00 | 13.2N 152.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 18, 00:00 | 13.5N 151.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 18, 06:00 | 13.4N 150.1E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 12:00 | 13.3N 149.2E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 18:00 | 13.3N 148.4E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 19, 00:00 | 13.3N 147.7E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 19, 06:00 | 14.0N 147.2E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 19, 12:00 | 15.1N 146.7E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 19, 18:00 | 16.5N 146.4E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 20, 00:00 | 17.6N 146.4E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 20, 06:00 | 18.7N 146.5E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 20, 12:00 | 20.0N 147.1E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 20, 18:00 | 21.4N 148.1E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 21, 00:00 | 23.0N 150.1E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 21, 06:00 | 24.5N 152.7E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 21, 12:00 | 25.5N 155.3E | 40 kt | 994 mb | Extratropical |
| Dec 21, 18:00 | 26.3N 158.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 22, 00:00 | 26.8N 160.9E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Extratropical |
| Dec 22, 06:00 | 27.1N 163.5E | 996 mb | Extratropical | |
| Dec 22, 12:00 | 26.7N 167.1E | 998 mb | Extratropical | |
| Dec 22, 18:00 | 25.9N 169.7E | 998 mb | Extratropical | |
| Dec 23, 00:00 | 25.0N 172.0E | 1000 mb | Extratropical | |
| Dec 23, 06:00 | 23.9N 175.0E | 1002 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
- Typhoon MeariWestern 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
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.