The 2020 season

Super Typhoon Haishen (2020)

Super Typhoon Haishen reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 30, 2020 and September 10, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 913 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Haishen, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 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
August 30, 2020 to September 10, 2020
Peak strength
Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)
Lowest pressure
913 mb (26.96 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
24.8
Identifier
WP112020

Radar at RKSG as it neared land, Sep 7, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 30, 12:0024.9N 145.5E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0024.5N 145.9E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0023.9N 146.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0023.7N 146.5E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Aug 31, 12:0022.8N 146.2E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0022.1N 145.5E30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0021.5N 145.0E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0020.9N 144.4E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0020.4N 143.8E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0019.6N 143.2E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0019.4N 142.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0019.4N 141.4E65 kt985 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 12:0019.6N 140.4E65 kt988 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 18:0019.9N 139.4E75 kt980 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 00:0020.2N 138.4E90 kt968 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 06:0020.6N 137.7E100 kt955 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 12:0020.9N 136.6E115 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 18:0021.3N 135.8E125 kt934 mbTyphoon
Sep 4, 00:0021.7N 135.1E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 4, 06:0022.2N 134.3E135 kt915 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 4, 12:0022.7N 133.5E135 kt916 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 4, 18:0023.3N 132.6E135 kt913 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 5, 00:0024.0N 132.0E130 kt920 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 5, 06:0024.7N 131.4E125 kt922 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 12:0025.4N 131.0E115 kt931 mbTyphoon
Sep 5, 18:0026.4N 130.9E110 kt934 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 00:0027.7N 130.5E105 kt936 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 06:0029.4N 130.0E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 12:0030.9N 129.4E95 kt945 mbTyphoon
Sep 6, 18:0033.1N 129.1E85 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 00:0035.7N 129.3E75 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 7, 06:0038.5N 129.3E55 kt973 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0040.0N 129.0E40 kt981 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0042.9N 129.1E25 kt982 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 00:0044.0N 128.2E990 mbMixed
Sep 8, 06:0045.3N 127.9E990 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 12:0045.8N 127.1E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 18:0045.8N 127.1E994 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 00:0045.6N 126.9E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 06:0045.4N 126.8E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 12:0044.7N 125.5E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 9, 18:0043.6N 125.1E1002 mbExtratropical
Sep 10, 00:0042.9N 124.4E1004 mbExtratropical
Sep 10, 06:0042.0N 124.0E1006 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 2020

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.