The 2011 season

Typhoon Nesat (2011)

Typhoon Nesat reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 23, 2011 and September 30, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 937 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nesat, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2011 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
September 23, 2011 to September 30, 2011
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
937 mb (27.67 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
290 nmi (537 km, 334 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
WP202011

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 23, 00:0013.0N 139.5E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 23, 06:0013.2N 138.8E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Sep 23, 12:0013.7N 138.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0013.9N 137.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0014.3N 136.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0015.0N 135.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0015.0N 133.4E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0014.7N 131.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0014.6N 130.4E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0014.6N 129.2E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 12:0014.7N 128.1E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0014.8N 127.0E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0015.3N 126.0E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0015.6N 124.9E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0015.8N 124.0E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 18:0016.1N 123.1E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 00:0016.4N 121.8E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 06:0016.7N 120.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 12:0016.8N 119.1E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 18:0017.2N 117.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 00:0017.4N 116.7E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 06:0017.7N 115.9E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 12:0018.1N 115.0E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 18:0018.8N 113.8E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 00:0019.4N 112.5E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 06:0019.9N 111.2E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 12:0020.2N 110.1E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0020.6N 108.9E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0020.8N 107.8E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0021.0N 106.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0021.1N 106.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0021.3N 105.7E20 kt1007 mbTropical depression

Other Western Pacific storms of 2011

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.