The 2014 season

Super Typhoon Vongfong (2014)

Super Typhoon Vongfong reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between October 1, 2014 and October 16, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 907 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Vongfong, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 1, 2014 to October 16, 2014
Peak strength
Category 5, 155 kt (178 mph)
Lowest pressure
907 mb (26.78 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
41.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
280 nmi (519 km, 322 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
265 nmi (491 km, 305 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
40 kt (46 mph)
Identifier
WP192014

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Oct 11, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$300,000

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
$200,000
Crop damage
$100,000
Events recorded
2 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Guam00$300,0002

What was recorded

2 hurricane (typhoon).

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 1, 18:005.5N 165.7E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 2, 00:005.9N 164.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 06:006.5N 163.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 12:007.1N 161.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 18:007.7N 160.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 00:008.0N 159.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:008.4N 158.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:008.8N 157.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:009.3N 156.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:009.9N 155.2E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0010.6N 154.1E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0011.2N 152.9E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0011.9N 151.6E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Oct 5, 00:0012.6N 149.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Oct 5, 06:0013.2N 148.2E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 5, 12:0013.8N 146.7E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 5, 18:0014.4N 145.1E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 6, 00:0015.1N 143.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 6, 06:0016.0N 141.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 6, 12:0016.4N 139.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 6, 18:0016.8N 138.1E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 7, 00:0017.0N 136.5E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Oct 7, 06:0017.2N 135.3E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Oct 7, 12:0017.4N 134.2E140 kt918 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 7, 18:0017.6N 133.2E155 kt907 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 8, 00:0017.9N 132.2E155 kt907 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 8, 06:0018.1N 131.5E145 kt914 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 8, 12:0018.4N 131.0E145 kt914 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 8, 18:0018.7N 130.5E145 kt914 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 9, 00:0019.2N 130.1E140 kt918 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 9, 06:0019.7N 129.8E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 9, 12:0020.2N 129.6E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 9, 18:0020.8N 129.4E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 10, 00:0021.5N 129.4E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 06:0022.3N 129.3E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 12:0023.2N 129.3E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 18:0023.8N 129.0E110 kt941 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 00:0024.3N 128.8E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 06:0025.3N 128.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 12:0026.0N 128.4E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 18:0027.1N 127.6E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Oct 12, 00:0027.8N 127.0E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Oct 12, 06:0028.9N 127.1E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0029.6N 127.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0030.5N 128.2E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0031.6N 130.4E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0033.0N 132.8E45 kt989 mbExtratropical
Oct 13, 12:0034.5N 135.4E40 kt993 mbExtratropical
Oct 13, 18:0036.5N 139.7E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Oct 14, 00:0039.1N 143.0E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 14, 06:0040.5N 146.2E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 14, 12:0041.7N 149.4E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 14, 18:0043.9N 152.8E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 00:0046.8N 156.1E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 06:0048.5N 160.2E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 12:0049.7N 164.5E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 15, 18:0051.0N 169.4E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 00:0051.9N 173.6E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 06:0051.8N 178.0E980 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 12:0051.0N 183.0EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 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.