Typhoon Kai-Tak (2012)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 11, 2012 to August 18, 2012

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Lowest pressure

974 mb (28.76 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

5.8

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

95 nmi (176 km, 109 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)

Overall size

240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

18 kt (21 mph)

Identifier

WP142012

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

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• Typhoon DamreyWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 180 kt · 963 mb
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• Typhoon TembinWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 4120 kt · 933 mb
• Typhoon BolavenWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 4125 kt · 929 mb
• Super Typhoon SanbaWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 5155 kt · 907 mb
• Super Typhoon JelawatWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 5140 kt · 918 mb
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• Tropical Storm GaemiWestern Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm MaliksiWestern Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm45 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon PrapiroonWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 3105 kt · 944 mb
• Tropical Storm MariaWestern Pacific · 2012Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Typhoon Son-TinhWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 3105 kt · 944 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2012Tropical Depression25 kt · 1004 mb
• Super Typhoon BophaWestern Pacific · 2012Cat 5150 kt · 911 mb
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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 Kai-tak