The 2007 season

Typhoon Kong-Rey (2007)

Typhoon Kong-Rey reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between March 30, 2007 and April 6, 2007, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Kong-Rey, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2007 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
March 30, 2007 to April 6, 2007
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1230 km (764 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
165 nmi (306 km, 190 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
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
25 kt (29 mph)
Identifier
WP012007

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Apr 2, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$10,000

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
$10,000
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Guam00$10,0001

What was recorded

1 tropical storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 30, 12:005.8N 158.2E1008 mbTropical storm
Mar 30, 18:006.6N 158.2E20 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Mar 31, 00:006.8N 157.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Mar 31, 06:007.3N 155.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Mar 31, 12:007.8N 154.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Mar 31, 18:008.7N 153.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Apr 1, 00:009.6N 152.7E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Apr 1, 06:0010.2N 152.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 1, 12:0010.3N 151.5E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Apr 1, 18:0011.0N 150.6E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Apr 2, 00:0012.2N 149.8E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Apr 2, 06:0013.5N 149.1E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Apr 2, 12:0014.4N 147.7E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Apr 2, 18:0015.1N 146.6E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Apr 3, 00:0016.1N 145.6E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Apr 3, 06:0016.9N 144.5E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Apr 3, 12:0017.7N 144.3E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Apr 3, 18:0018.6N 144.0E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Apr 4, 00:0019.8N 144.4E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Apr 4, 06:0021.1N 145.2E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Apr 4, 12:0022.2N 146.5E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 18:0023.3N 148.0E40 kt994 mbExtratropical
Apr 5, 00:0024.1N 150.2E35 kt997 mbExtratropical
Apr 5, 06:0024.9N 152.3E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Apr 5, 12:0025.9N 155.0E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Apr 5, 18:0026.1N 158.2E25 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Apr 6, 00:0027.0N 160.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Apr 6, 06:0027.2N 162.3E1008 mbExtratropical
Apr 6, 12:0027.2N 164.3E1012 mbExtratropical
Apr 6, 18:0027.1N 166.3E1012 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2007

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.