Typhoon Kompasu (2010)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 27, 2010 to September 6, 2010

Peak strength

Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)

Lowest pressure

944 mb (27.88 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

12.0

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

130 nmi (241 km, 150 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

25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)

Overall size

210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

43 kt (49 mph)

Identifier

WP082010

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Aug 31, 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 Kompasu