Super Typhoon Songda (2011)
Super Typhoon Songda reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between May 19, 2011 and June 2, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 918 mb, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Songda, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- May 19, 2011 to June 2, 2011
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 918 mb (27.11 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 26.8
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 170 kt (196 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 40 kt (46 mph)
- Identifier
- WP042011
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$1,000
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
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- $1,000
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guam | 0 | 0 | $1,000 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 18:00 | 8.3N 141.6E | 1006 mb | Tropical storm | |
| May 20, 00:00 | 8.9N 140.7E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 20, 06:00 | 8.9N 140.0E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| May 20, 12:00 | 8.7N 139.4E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 20, 18:00 | 9.0N 139.1E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 21, 00:00 | 8.8N 138.6E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 21, 06:00 | 9.1N 138.1E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 21, 12:00 | 9.4N 137.7E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 21, 18:00 | 9.6N 137.3E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 00:00 | 9.8N 137.0E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 06:00 | 10.0N 136.6E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 12:00 | 10.4N 135.8E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 22, 18:00 | 10.7N 134.8E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 23, 00:00 | 11.0N 133.8E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 23, 06:00 | 11.3N 133.1E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 23, 12:00 | 11.5N 132.4E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 23, 18:00 | 11.7N 131.7E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| May 24, 00:00 | 12.0N 131.1E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| May 24, 06:00 | 12.2N 130.2E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| May 24, 12:00 | 12.2N 129.4E | 70 kt | 970 mb | Typhoon |
| May 24, 18:00 | 12.1N 128.7E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| May 25, 00:00 | 12.2N 128.2E | 90 kt | 956 mb | Typhoon |
| May 25, 06:00 | 12.7N 127.9E | 105 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| May 25, 12:00 | 13.2N 127.6E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| May 25, 18:00 | 13.8N 127.2E | 120 kt | 933 mb | Typhoon |
| May 26, 00:00 | 14.7N 126.5E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| May 26, 06:00 | 15.6N 125.8E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| May 26, 12:00 | 16.3N 125.0E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| May 26, 18:00 | 17.2N 124.4E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| May 27, 00:00 | 18.2N 123.9E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| May 27, 06:00 | 19.2N 123.4E | 135 kt | 922 mb | Super typhoon |
| May 27, 12:00 | 20.4N 123.1E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| May 27, 18:00 | 21.5N 123.3E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| May 28, 00:00 | 23.0N 123.9E | 100 kt | 948 mb | Typhoon |
| May 28, 06:00 | 24.7N 125.0E | 90 kt | 956 mb | Typhoon |
| May 28, 12:00 | 26.5N 126.9E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| May 28, 18:00 | 28.6N 129.2E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| May 29, 00:00 | 30.7N 131.5E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 29, 06:00 | 32.9N 134.3E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Extratropical |
| May 29, 12:00 | 34.4N 136.6E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Extratropical |
| May 29, 18:00 | 34.5N 137.4E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 30, 00:00 | 34.6N 139.6E | 990 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 30, 06:00 | 35.8N 142.8E | 990 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 30, 12:00 | 36.4N 145.1E | 990 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 30, 18:00 | 36.4N 148.1E | 990 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 31, 00:00 | 36.3N 150.9E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 31, 06:00 | 36.7N 154.6E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 31, 12:00 | 37.3N 156.8E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| May 31, 18:00 | 37.7N 158.6E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| Jun 1, 00:00 | 37.8N 160.5E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| Jun 1, 06:00 | 38.8N 165.4E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| Jun 1, 12:00 | 39.4N 169.7E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| Jun 1, 18:00 | 40.5N 173.6E | 988 mb | Extratropical | |
| Jun 2, 00:00 | 42.0N 178.2E | 990 mb | Extratropical |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm AereWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Depression SarikaWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm HaimaWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm MeariWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Depression TokageWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon Nock-TenWestern Pacific · 2011
- Super Typhoon MuifaWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon MerbokWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Super Typhoon NanmadolWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm TalasWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm NoruWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm KulapWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon RokeWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon SoncaWestern Pacific · 2011
- Typhoon NesatWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm HaitangWestern Pacific · 2011
- Super Typhoon NalgaeWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Depression BanyanWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2011
- Tropical Storm WashiWestern Pacific · 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.