The 2008 season

Typhoon Neoguri (2008)

Typhoon Neoguri reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between April 13, 2008 and April 19, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb, and made landfall. It killed 26 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Neoguri, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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
April 13, 2008 to April 19, 2008
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
115 nmi (213 km, 132 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
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
WP022008

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

26 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Apr 13, 00:008.1N 127.0E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Apr 13, 06:008.7N 125.9E15 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Apr 13, 12:009.2N 124.7E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Apr 13, 18:009.5N 123.3E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Apr 14, 00:009.5N 121.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 14, 06:009.0N 120.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 12:009.4N 119.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 18:009.9N 117.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 00:0010.5N 116.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 06:0011.2N 116.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 12:0012.0N 115.2E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 18:0012.9N 114.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 00:0013.3N 113.0E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Apr 16, 06:0013.3N 112.5E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Apr 16, 12:0013.9N 112.5E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Apr 16, 18:0014.6N 112.4E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Apr 17, 00:0015.3N 112.1E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Apr 17, 06:0015.9N 111.9E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Apr 17, 12:0016.5N 111.9E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Apr 17, 18:0017.1N 111.7E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Apr 18, 00:0017.8N 111.4E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Apr 18, 06:0018.6N 111.4E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Apr 18, 12:0019.4N 111.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Apr 18, 18:0020.2N 111.3E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Apr 19, 00:0020.9N 111.6E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 06:0021.7N 112.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 12:0022.6N 113.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 18:0023.3N 114.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2008

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.