The 2005 season

Super Typhoon Talim (2005)

Super Typhoon Talim reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 24, 2005 and September 3, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 910 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Talim, 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
August 24, 2005 to September 3, 2005
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
910 mb (26.87 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
WP132005

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Aug 25, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 24, 18:0014.2N 147.7E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 00:0013.7N 147.0E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 06:0013.2N 146.3E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 12:0013.0N 145.5E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 25, 18:0012.8N 145.0E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 26, 00:0012.6N 144.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 06:0013.1N 143.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 12:0013.8N 143.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 18:0014.4N 142.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0014.9N 142.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0015.8N 141.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0016.9N 141.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.4N 139.7E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0018.3N 138.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0019.2N 137.7E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 12:0020.0N 136.8E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 18:0020.4N 135.6E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 00:0020.8N 134.3E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 06:0021.0N 132.9E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 12:0021.0N 131.7E115 kt927 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 18:0021.2N 130.5E125 kt916 mbTyphoon
Aug 30, 00:0021.5N 129.4E125 kt916 mbTyphoon
Aug 30, 06:0021.8N 128.3E130 kt910 mbSuper typhoon
Aug 30, 12:0022.0N 127.2E130 kt910 mbSuper typhoon
Aug 30, 18:0022.3N 126.2E125 kt916 mbTyphoon
Aug 31, 00:0022.8N 125.1E120 kt922 mbTyphoon
Aug 31, 06:0023.3N 124.0E115 kt927 mbTyphoon
Aug 31, 12:0023.8N 122.9E110 kt933 mbTyphoon
Aug 31, 18:0023.9N 121.5E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 00:0024.6N 120.7E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 06:0025.2N 119.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0025.8N 118.2E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0026.3N 116.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0026.6N 115.7E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0027.4N 114.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0027.9N 114.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0028.3N 114.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0028.3N 114.2ETropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0028.4N 114.1ETropical 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.