Typhoon Soulik (2006)
Typhoon Soulik reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between October 8, 2006 and October 17, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 954 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Typhoon Soulik, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2006 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
- October 8, 2006 to October 17, 2006
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 954 mb (28.17 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 594 km (369 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 11.7
- 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
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
- Overall size
- 275 nmi (509 km, 316 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 42 kt (48 mph)
- Identifier
- WP212006
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 13.2N 159.3E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 13.8N 158.2E | 20 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 14.5N 157.2E | 30 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 15.4N 156.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 16.5N 155.7E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 17.5N 154.7E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 18.2N 153.3E | 40 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 18.7N 151.8E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 19.0N 150.0E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 19.5N 148.3E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 19.9N 146.5E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 20.4N 144.8E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 21.0N 143.4E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 21.5N 142.3E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 22.1N 141.6E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 22.9N 141.3E | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 23.3N 141.1E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 23.4N 140.8E | 70 kt | 972 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 23.7N 140.7E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 23.7N 141.0E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 23.9N 141.2E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 24.2N 141.1E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 24.5N 141.0E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 24.9N 140.9E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 12:00 | 25.6N 140.9E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 18:00 | 26.4N 141.0E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 15, 00:00 | 27.4N 141.4E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 15, 06:00 | 29.0N 142.4E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 15, 12:00 | 30.6N 143.8E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 15, 18:00 | 32.3N 145.6E | 50 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 16, 00:00 | 33.4N 148.6E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 16, 06:00 | 35.9N 153.2E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 16, 12:00 | 37.8N 159.1E | 45 kt | 991 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 16, 18:00 | 38.0N 162.1E | 984 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 17, 00:00 | 38.2N 166.5E | 992 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 17, 06:00 | 38.0N 171.5E | 996 mb | Extratropical |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2006
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon ChanchuWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm JelawatWestern Pacific · 2006
- Super Typhoon EwiniarWestern Pacific · 2006
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm BilisWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon KaemiWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon PrapiroonWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm MariaWestern Pacific · 2006
- Super Typhoon SaomaiWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm BophaWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm WukongWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm SonamuWestern Pacific · 2006
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon ShanshanWestern Pacific · 2006
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2006
- Super Typhoon YagiWestern Pacific · 2006
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon XangsaneWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Storm BebincaWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Depression RumbiaWestern Pacific · 2006
- Super Typhoon CimaronWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon ChebiWestern Pacific · 2006
- Super Typhoon DurianWestern Pacific · 2006
- Typhoon UtorWestern Pacific · 2006
- Tropical Depression TramiWestern Pacific · 2006
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.