The 2017 season

Typhoon Khanun (2017)

Typhoon Khanun reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between October 11, 2017 and October 16, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 956 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 11, 2017 to October 16, 2017
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
956 mb (28.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
270 nmi (500 km, 311 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
65 nmi (120 km, 75 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
400 nmi (741 km, 460 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
WP242017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 11, 00:0015.5N 134.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0016.3N 132.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0016.7N 130.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0017.2N 128.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0017.8N 126.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0017.8N 124.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0018.2N 123.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 18:0018.5N 122.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0017.5N 120.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0017.2N 119.8E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0016.9N 119.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0016.9N 119.1E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0017.2N 118.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0017.7N 118.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0018.6N 117.5E60 kt983 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0019.4N 116.3E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Oct 15, 00:0020.0N 114.8E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Oct 15, 06:0020.4N 113.6E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Oct 15, 12:0020.7N 112.0E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Oct 15, 18:0020.6N 110.5E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0020.2N 109.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0020.3N 109.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression

Other Western Pacific storms of 2017

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.