Super Typhoon Higos (2015)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

February 6, 2015 to February 12, 2015

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

926 mb (27.34 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 1493 km (928 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.6

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

100 nmi (185 km, 115 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

10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)

Overall size

210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

9 kt (10 mph)

Identifier

WP022015

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

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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.