Super Typhoon Noul (2015)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

May 2, 2015 to May 16, 2015

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

918 mb (27.11 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

28.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

62 kt (71 mph)

Identifier

WP062015

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

The sources count different things and are not added together.

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

$50,000

Crop damage

$50,000

Events recorded

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 hurricane (typhoon).

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

Around noon time on the 3rd of May Tropical Depression 06W formed over Yap State about 155 miles southeast of Ulithi. On the morning of the 4th the tropical depression became Tropical Storm Noul and passed close to Fais. The tropical storm moved west and passed just south of Ulithi on the evening of the 4th. Noul continued to move westward and intensify. It passed near Yap on the morning of the 6th as a typhoon. Maximum sustained winds observed on Yap was 38 mph with a peak wind gust to 72 mph on the morning of the 6th. The typhoon brought heavy rain to Yap with 7.34 inches of rain falling on the 5th and 4.31 inches falling on the 6th. The lowest Sea Level Pressure that was recorded was 989.8mb at 1755Z on the 5th which is the morning of the 6th on Yap.

Micronesia, Guam · Hurricane (Typhoon) · May 3, 14:00 UTC

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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.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Noul