Typhoon Sonca (2005)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

April 16, 2005 to April 29, 2005

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Lowest pressure

927 mb (27.37 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 601 km (373 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

14.7

Identifier

WP032005

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.