The 2015 season

Super Typhoon Dujuan (2015)

Super Typhoon Dujuan reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 19, 2015 and September 30, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 926 mb, and made landfall. It killed 1 people in the United States, by the National Weather Service’s record.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Dujuan, 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
September 19, 2015 to September 30, 2015
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
926 mb (27.34 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
20.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
195 nmi (361 km, 224 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
260 nmi (482 km, 299 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP212015

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 20, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

1 deaths (1 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded

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
1 (1 direct, 0 indirect)
Injuries
0
Property damage
none recorded
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Guam101

What was recorded

1 high surf.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 19, 18:0013.5N 148.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0013.8N 148.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0014.4N 147.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0014.7N 146.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0015.1N 145.3E20 kt1002 mbMD
Sep 21, 00:0015.2N 144.2E20 kt1007 mbMD
Sep 21, 06:0015.3N 143.7E20 kt1007 mbMD
Sep 21, 12:0015.6N 142.9E20 kt1007 mbMD
Sep 21, 18:0016.2N 142.1E25 kt1004 mbMD
Sep 22, 00:0016.9N 141.5E25 kt1000 mbMD
Sep 22, 06:0017.4N 140.7E25 kt1000 mbMD
Sep 22, 12:0017.6N 139.2E30 kt1000 mbMD
Sep 22, 18:0017.7N 137.9E35 kt996 mbMD
Sep 23, 00:0017.8N 136.7E35 kt996 mbMD
Sep 23, 06:0018.1N 135.7E35 kt996 mbMD
Sep 23, 12:0018.3N 134.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0018.5N 133.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0018.5N 133.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0018.6N 132.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0018.8N 132.6E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0019.0N 132.4E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0019.1N 132.2E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 06:0019.3N 131.8E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 12:0019.7N 131.4E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0020.4N 131.0E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0021.0N 130.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0021.6N 129.7E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0022.0N 128.8E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 18:0022.1N 128.1E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 00:0022.3N 127.4E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 06:0022.5N 126.7E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 12:0022.7N 125.8E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 18:0023.0N 124.8E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 28, 00:0023.4N 123.9E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 06:0024.0N 122.8E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 12:0024.2N 121.0E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 18:0024.2N 120.1E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 00:0025.1N 119.2E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 29, 06:0025.3N 117.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0026.0N 116.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0026.7N 116.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 00:0028.0N 116.2E1010 mbMixed
Sep 30, 06:0028.7N 116.7E1010 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.