Super Typhoon Maria (2018)
Super Typhoon Maria reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between July 3, 2018 and July 13, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 910 mb, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Maria, 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
- July 3, 2018 to July 13, 2018
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 145 kt (167 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 910 mb (26.87 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 36.3
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 67 nmi (124 km, 77 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 125 kt (144 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 21 kt (24 mph)
- Identifier
- WP102018
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$150,000
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
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- 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 | $150,000 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 00:00 | 9.7N 146.4E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Jul 3, 06:00 | 10.5N 146.7E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Jul 3, 12:00 | 11.1N 146.7E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 3, 18:00 | 11.4N 146.6E | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 4, 00:00 | 11.7N 146.3E | 35 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 4, 06:00 | 12.3N 146.0E | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 4, 12:00 | 12.8N 145.4E | 45 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 4, 18:00 | 13.5N 144.9E | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 5, 00:00 | 14.0N 144.0E | 60 kt | 983 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 5, 06:00 | 14.5N 143.3E | 70 kt | 981 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 5, 12:00 | 14.8N 142.7E | 85 kt | 970 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 5, 18:00 | 15.4N 142.4E | 115 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 6, 00:00 | 15.9N 142.0E | 135 kt | 924 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 6, 06:00 | 16.5N 141.6E | 130 kt | 927 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 6, 12:00 | 16.7N 141.3E | 130 kt | 925 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 6, 18:00 | 16.9N 140.9E | 120 kt | 935 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 7, 00:00 | 17.2N 140.8E | 115 kt | 939 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 7, 06:00 | 17.6N 140.6E | 120 kt | 934 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 7, 12:00 | 18.0N 140.3E | 120 kt | 934 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 7, 18:00 | 18.7N 139.5E | 125 kt | 930 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 8, 00:00 | 19.1N 138.8E | 135 kt | 919 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 8, 06:00 | 19.8N 137.8E | 140 kt | 914 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 8, 12:00 | 20.5N 136.5E | 145 kt | 910 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 8, 18:00 | 21.1N 135.1E | 145 kt | 910 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 9, 00:00 | 21.8N 133.5E | 140 kt | 917 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 9, 06:00 | 22.4N 131.9E | 130 kt | 925 mb | Super typhoon |
| Jul 9, 12:00 | 22.9N 130.3E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 9, 18:00 | 23.5N 128.7E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 10, 00:00 | 24.0N 127.2E | 105 kt | 945 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 10, 06:00 | 24.7N 125.4E | 100 kt | 950 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 10, 12:00 | 25.3N 124.0E | 95 kt | 953 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 10, 18:00 | 26.2N 122.2E | 95 kt | 952 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 11, 00:00 | 26.4N 120.0E | 95 kt | 951 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 11, 06:00 | 26.5N 118.5E | 75 kt | 969 mb | Typhoon |
| Jul 11, 12:00 | 26.7N 116.4E | 55 kt | 983 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jul 11, 18:00 | 27.5N 115.3E | 30 kt | 996 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jul 12, 00:00 | 28.6N 114.4E | 1000 mb | Mixed | |
| Jul 12, 06:00 | 29.3N 113.7E | 1000 mb | Mixed | |
| Jul 12, 12:00 | 30.1N 112.9E | 1002 mb | Mixed | |
| Jul 12, 18:00 | 30.9N 112.5E | 1002 mb | Mixed | |
| Jul 13, 00:00 | 32.4N 112.5E | Disturbance |
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
- 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
- Super Typhoon MangkhutWestern Pacific · 2018 · 59 deaths
- 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.