The 2005 season

Typhoon Damrey (2005)

Typhoon Damrey reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 19, 2005 and September 28, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 954 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Damrey, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2005 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
September 19, 2005 to September 28, 2005
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
954 mb (28.17 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP172005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 19, 06:0013.2N 127.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0013.8N 126.1E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0014.3N 125.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0014.9N 124.6E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0015.1N 125.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 12:0016.2N 124.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 18:0017.3N 123.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0018.3N 123.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0018.7N 122.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0019.1N 121.6E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0019.2N 121.0E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0019.7N 120.8E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0020.1N 120.4E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0020.0N 119.7E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0019.9N 118.9E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0020.1N 118.0E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0020.2N 117.1E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0020.1N 116.6E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0019.9N 116.1E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0019.7N 115.5E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0019.5N 114.7E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0019.3N 113.9E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0018.8N 113.4E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 00:0018.9N 112.8E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 06:0019.0N 112.3E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 12:0019.0N 111.6E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0019.0N 110.9E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0018.6N 110.0E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0018.8N 109.1E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0019.2N 108.2E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0019.4N 107.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0019.5N 106.2E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0019.7N 104.9E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0019.7N 103.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0019.4N 102.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 00:0020.4N 101.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0021.0N 99.7ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2005

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.