The 2015 season

Typhoon Chan-Hom (2015)

Typhoon Chan-Hom reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between June 29, 2015 and July 13, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 933 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Chan-Hom, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2015 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
June 29, 2015 to July 13, 2015
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
933 mb (27.55 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
22.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
280 nmi (519 km, 322 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
12 nmi (22 km, 14 mi)
Overall size
270 nmi (500 km, 311 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
59 kt (68 mph)
Identifier
WP092015

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Jul 5, 00:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$2.0 million

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
$2.0 million
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Guam00$2.0 million1

What was recorded

1 tropical storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 29, 06:008.6N 160.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:008.9N 160.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:009.2N 160.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:009.0N 161.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jun 30, 06:009.4N 160.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jun 30, 12:009.7N 159.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jun 30, 18:0010.0N 159.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0010.6N 158.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0011.1N 156.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0011.3N 155.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0011.3N 153.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0011.3N 152.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0010.8N 150.2E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0010.2N 149.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0010.1N 148.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0010.5N 148.4E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0010.8N 148.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0011.3N 148.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0011.8N 148.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0012.7N 148.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0013.1N 147.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0013.4N 146.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0013.8N 145.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0014.1N 145.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0014.1N 145.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0015.1N 144.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0015.7N 143.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0016.5N 142.2E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 06:0017.3N 140.8E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0017.4N 139.6E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Jul 6, 18:0017.7N 138.4E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 00:0018.0N 137.4E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 06:0018.2N 136.5E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 12:0018.6N 135.5E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 18:0019.1N 134.6E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 00:0019.5N 133.7E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 06:0020.5N 132.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 12:0021.1N 131.7E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 18:0021.7N 130.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 00:0022.5N 129.7E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 06:0023.3N 128.6E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 12:0024.2N 127.6E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 18:0025.1N 126.6E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 00:0025.7N 125.5E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 06:0026.6N 124.7E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 12:0027.2N 123.9E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 18:0027.8N 123.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 00:0028.6N 122.8E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 06:0029.5N 122.4E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 12:0030.5N 122.8E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 18:0031.6N 123.0E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0033.2N 123.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0035.0N 124.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0036.8N 124.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 18:0038.4N 125.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 13, 00:0040.0N 126.7E986 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 2015

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.