Typhoon Morakot (2009)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 2, 2009 to August 13, 2009

Peak strength

Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)

Lowest pressure

954 mb (28.17 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.9

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

230 nmi (426 km, 265 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

360 nmi (667 km, 414 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

45 kt (52 mph)

Fastest the center moved

39 kt (45 mph)

Identifier

WP092009

Radar at RKJK as it neared land, Aug 12, 06:00 UTC

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.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Morakot