Super Typhoon Rammasun (2014)
Super Typhoon Rammasun reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between July 9, 2014 and July 20, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 918 mb, and made landfall. It killed 40 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Rammasun, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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
- July 9, 2014 to July 20, 2014
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 918 mb (27.11 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 22.6
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 17 nmi (31 km, 20 mi)
- Overall size
- 240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 19 kt (22 mph)
- Identifier
- WP092014
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
40 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 06:00 | 8.0N 154.3E | 1006 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 9, 12:00 | 8.0N 153.6E | 1008 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Jul 9, 18:00 | 8.5N 152.9E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Jul 10, 00:00 | 8.8N 152.1E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Jul 10, 06:00 | 9.5N 151.4E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 10, 12:00 | 10.4N 150.7E | 25 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 10, 18:00 | 11.3N 150.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 11, 00:00 | 11.9N 149.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 11, 06:00 | 12.7N 148.8E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 11, 12:00 | 13.3N 147.6E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 11, 18:00 | 13.6N 146.2E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 12, 00:00 | 13.6N 144.7E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 12, 06:00 | 13.7N 143.4E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 12, 12:00 | 13.7N 141.9E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 12, 18:00 | 13.7N 140.5E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 13, 00:00 | 13.7N 138.4E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 13, 06:00 | 13.7N 136.2E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 13, 12:00 | 13.6N 134.2E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 13, 18:00 | 13.7N 132.4E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 00:00 | 13.3N 130.6E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 14, 06:00 | 12.8N 129.2E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 14, 12:00 | 12.6N 128.2E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 14, 18:00 | 12.7N 127.0E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 15, 00:00 | 12.7N 125.6E | 90 kt | 956 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 15, 06:00 | 13.0N 124.6E | 100 kt | 948 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 15, 12:00 | 13.4N 123.5E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 15, 18:00 | 13.8N 122.1E | 105 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 16, 00:00 | 14.3N 120.6E | 90 kt | 956 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 16, 06:00 | 14.8N 119.1E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 16, 12:00 | 15.2N 117.8E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 16, 18:00 | 15.6N 116.9E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 17, 00:00 | 16.3N 115.8E | 85 kt | 959 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 17, 06:00 | 16.9N 115.0E | 95 kt | 952 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 17, 12:00 | 17.5N 114.3E | 105 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 17, 18:00 | 18.4N 113.4E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 18, 00:00 | 19.1N 112.3E | 130 kt | 926 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 18, 06:00 | 19.9N 111.3E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 18, 12:00 | 20.4N 110.3E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 18, 18:00 | 21.0N 109.4E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 19, 00:00 | 21.8N 108.3E | 100 kt | 948 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 19, 06:00 | 22.5N 107.4E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 19, 12:00 | 22.9N 106.5E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 19, 18:00 | 23.2N 105.5E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 20, 00:00 | 23.5N 104.4E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 20, 06:00 | 23.8N 103.3E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2014
- Tropical Depression LinglingWestern Pacific · 2014 · 70 deaths
- Tropical Storm KajikiWestern Pacific · 2014
- Typhoon FaxaiWestern Pacific · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm PeipahWestern Pacific · 2014
- Typhoon TapahWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm MitagWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm HagibisWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon NeoguriWestern Pacific · 2014
- Typhoon MatmoWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm NakriWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon HalongWestern Pacific · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2014
- Typhoon FengshenWestern Pacific · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2014
- Typhoon KalmaegiWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm Fung-WongWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm KammuriWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon PhanfoneWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon VongfongWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon NuriWestern Pacific · 2014
- Tropical Storm SinlakuWestern Pacific · 2014
- Super Typhoon HagupitWestern Pacific · 2014 · 19 deaths
- Tropical Storm JangmiWestern Pacific · 2014
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.