The 2015 season

Super Typhoon Nangka (2015)

Super Typhoon Nangka reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between July 2, 2015 and July 18, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 922 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Nangka, 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
July 2, 2015 to July 18, 2015
Peak strength
Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)
Lowest pressure
922 mb (27.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
44.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
235 nmi (435 km, 270 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
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
260 nmi (482 km, 299 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
110 kt (127 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
WP112015

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$1.0 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
$1.0 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$1.0 million1

What was recorded

1 coastal flood.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 2, 18:008.3N 171.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:008.3N 171.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:008.8N 172.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jul 3, 12:009.2N 171.5E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 18:009.6N 170.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0010.1N 169.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0011.0N 168.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0011.2N 167.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0011.1N 166.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0011.2N 164.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0011.2N 163.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0011.2N 162.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0011.4N 160.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0011.6N 159.6E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 06:0011.9N 158.7E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Jul 6, 12:0012.2N 157.8E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 6, 18:0012.5N 156.7E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 00:0013.1N 155.5E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 06:0013.7N 154.4E110 kt941 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 12:0014.3N 153.4E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Jul 7, 18:0015.0N 152.2E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 00:0015.4N 150.7E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 06:0015.5N 149.8E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 12:0016.0N 149.0E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Jul 8, 18:0016.5N 147.8E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 00:0017.0N 146.9E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Jul 9, 06:0017.6N 145.8E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Jul 9, 12:0018.0N 144.5E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Jul 9, 18:0018.1N 143.5E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Jul 10, 00:0018.3N 142.7E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 06:0018.4N 141.9E120 kt933 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 12:0018.2N 141.3E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Jul 10, 18:0018.3N 140.6E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 00:0018.4N 140.0E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 06:0018.4N 139.5E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 12:0018.4N 138.9E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 11, 18:0018.3N 138.4E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jul 12, 00:0018.3N 138.0E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jul 12, 06:0018.4N 137.7E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 12, 12:0018.7N 137.4E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 12, 18:0019.1N 137.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 13, 00:0019.6N 137.2E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Jul 13, 06:0020.5N 137.0E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Jul 13, 12:0021.3N 136.8E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 13, 18:0022.1N 136.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 14, 00:0022.9N 136.5E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 14, 06:0023.7N 136.6E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Jul 14, 12:0024.5N 136.6E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Jul 14, 18:0025.5N 136.5E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Jul 15, 00:0026.5N 136.3E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 15, 06:0027.7N 136.0E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Jul 15, 12:0028.8N 135.6E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Jul 15, 18:0030.0N 135.2E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jul 16, 00:0031.0N 134.7E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jul 16, 06:0032.0N 134.5E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Jul 16, 12:0033.1N 134.3E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Jul 16, 18:0034.0N 133.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0034.9N 133.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0035.9N 134.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0036.7N 134.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 18:0037.5N 134.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 00:0038.7N 135.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 06:0039.7N 136.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance

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.