Super Typhoon Mangkhut (2018)
Super Typhoon Mangkhut reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 6, 2018 and September 17, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 896 mb, and made landfall. It killed 59 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Mangkhut, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2018 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- September 6, 2018 to September 17, 2018
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 155 kt (178 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 896 mb (26.46 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 47.0
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 310 nmi (574 km, 357 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 102 nmi (189 km, 117 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
- Overall size
- 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 21 kt (24 mph)
- Identifier
- WP262018
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$9.6 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.
Wikidata
59 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
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
- $7.6 million
- Crop damage
- $2.0 million
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guam | 0 | 0 | $9.6 million | 1 |
What was recorded
1 hurricane (typhoon).
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 12:00 | 11.8N 170.2E | 1008 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 6, 18:00 | 12.0N 169.3E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 7, 00:00 | 12.2N 168.0E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 7, 06:00 | 12.4N 166.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 7, 12:00 | 12.8N 165.3E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 7, 18:00 | 13.3N 163.6E | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 00:00 | 13.6N 162.4E | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 06:00 | 14.2N 160.8E | 45 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 12:00 | 14.7N 158.9E | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 8, 18:00 | 15.0N 156.8E | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 9, 00:00 | 15.2N 154.8E | 65 kt | 989 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 9, 06:00 | 15.3N 153.2E | 70 kt | 985 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 9, 12:00 | 15.2N 151.1E | 70 kt | 985 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 9, 18:00 | 14.8N 149.1E | 75 kt | 983 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 10, 00:00 | 14.5N 147.4E | 85 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 10, 06:00 | 14.3N 145.6E | 90 kt | 962 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 10, 12:00 | 14.1N 144.2E | 100 kt | 958 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 10, 18:00 | 13.9N 142.7E | 110 kt | 950 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 11, 00:00 | 13.9N 141.2E | 125 kt | 935 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 11, 06:00 | 13.9N 139.8E | 140 kt | 919 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 11, 12:00 | 13.8N 138.7E | 140 kt | 917 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 11, 18:00 | 13.9N 137.3E | 140 kt | 916 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 12, 00:00 | 13.9N 136.2E | 145 kt | 910 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 12, 06:00 | 14.0N 135.2E | 155 kt | 896 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 12, 12:00 | 14.2N 133.9E | 155 kt | 896 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 12, 18:00 | 14.3N 132.5E | 155 kt | 896 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 13, 00:00 | 14.5N 131.3E | 150 kt | 902 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 13, 06:00 | 14.7N 130.1E | 145 kt | 906 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 13, 12:00 | 14.9N 129.0E | 145 kt | 906 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 13, 18:00 | 15.3N 127.9E | 155 kt | 897 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 14, 00:00 | 15.9N 126.9E | 150 kt | 900 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 14, 06:00 | 16.8N 125.6E | 145 kt | 904 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 14, 12:00 | 17.4N 124.1E | 140 kt | 911 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 14, 18:00 | 17.9N 122.3E | 140 kt | 911 mb | Super typhoon |
| Sep 15, 00:00 | 18.2N 120.9E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 15, 06:00 | 18.6N 119.6E | 105 kt | 946 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 15, 12:00 | 19.2N 118.2E | 95 kt | 952 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 15, 18:00 | 19.8N 116.9E | 85 kt | 959 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 16, 00:00 | 20.8N 115.3E | 80 kt | 961 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 16, 06:00 | 21.4N 113.6E | 80 kt | 962 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 16, 12:00 | 22.1N 111.4E | 75 kt | 965 mb | Typhoon |
| Sep 16, 18:00 | 22.4N 109.9E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 17, 00:00 | 23.0N 108.5E | 40 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 17, 06:00 | 23.4N 106.9E | 30 kt | 992 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 17, 12:00 | 23.7N 105.3E | 20 kt | 1000 mb | Disturbance |
| Sep 17, 18:00 | 24.1N 103.9E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2018
- Tropical Storm BolavenWestern Pacific · 2018 · 4 deaths
- Tropical Storm SanbaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon JelawatWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm EwiniarWestern Pacific · 2018 · 5 deaths
- Tropical Storm MaliksiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm GaemiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon PrapiroonWestern Pacific · 2018 · 3 deaths
- Super Typhoon MariaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm Son-TinhWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm AmpilWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon WukongWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon JongdariWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon ShanshanWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm YagiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm BebincaWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon LeepiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm RumbiaWestern Pacific · 2018 · 53 deaths
- Typhoon SoulikWestern Pacific · 2018 · 86 deaths
- Typhoon CimaronWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon JebiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm BarijatWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon TramiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon Kong-ReyWestern Pacific · 2018
- Super Typhoon YutuWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon UsagiWestern Pacific · 2018 · 4 deaths
- Tropical Depression TorajiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Typhoon Man-YiWestern Pacific · 2018
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2018
- Tropical Storm PabukWestern Pacific · 2018
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.