Typhoon Vongfong (2020)
Typhoon Vongfong reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between May 8, 2020 and May 18, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 961 mb, and made landfall. It killed 5 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Typhoon Vongfong, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- May 8, 2020 to May 18, 2020
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 961 mb (28.38 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 7.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
- Overall size
- 190 nmi (352 km, 219 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 34 kt (39 mph)
- Identifier
- WP012020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
5 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.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 06:00 | 7.2N 133.9E | 15 kt | 1009 mb | Disturbance |
| May 8, 12:00 | 7.2N 133.9E | 15 kt | 1009 mb | Disturbance |
| May 8, 18:00 | 6.8N 133.5E | 15 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| May 9, 00:00 | 6.5N 133.2E | 15 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| May 9, 06:00 | 6.5N 132.8E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| May 9, 12:00 | 6.8N 132.4E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| May 9, 18:00 | 7.0N 132.0E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 10, 00:00 | 7.3N 131.5E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 10, 06:00 | 7.7N 130.8E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 10, 12:00 | 8.0N 130.4E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 10, 18:00 | 8.2N 130.1E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 11, 00:00 | 8.5N 129.8E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 11, 06:00 | 8.8N 129.5E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 11, 12:00 | 9.1N 129.1E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 11, 18:00 | 9.6N 128.9E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 12, 00:00 | 10.3N 129.1E | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 12, 06:00 | 10.9N 129.7E | 30 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 12, 12:00 | 11.4N 129.7E | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 12, 18:00 | 11.7N 129.2E | 50 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 13, 00:00 | 11.9N 128.9E | 60 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 13, 06:00 | 12.0N 128.5E | 65 kt | 985 mb | Typhoon |
| May 13, 12:00 | 12.1N 127.9E | 90 kt | 970 mb | Typhoon |
| May 13, 18:00 | 12.1N 127.0E | 100 kt | 961 mb | Typhoon |
| May 14, 00:00 | 12.1N 126.2E | 95 kt | 966 mb | Typhoon |
| May 14, 06:00 | 12.2N 125.3E | 100 kt | 962 mb | Typhoon |
| May 14, 12:00 | 12.3N 124.6E | 85 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| May 14, 18:00 | 12.5N 123.6E | 65 kt | 987 mb | Typhoon |
| May 15, 00:00 | 13.3N 122.7E | 65 kt | 987 mb | Typhoon |
| May 15, 06:00 | 14.0N 122.0E | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 15, 12:00 | 15.2N 121.5E | 55 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 15, 18:00 | 16.2N 121.1E | 40 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 00:00 | 18.0N 120.0E | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| May 16, 06:00 | 18.7N 120.0E | 25 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| May 16, 12:00 | 19.2N 120.3E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 16, 18:00 | 20.3N 120.5E | 20 kt | 1005 mb | Disturbance |
| May 17, 00:00 | 20.6N 120.2E | 15 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| May 17, 06:00 | 21.2N 120.7E | 15 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| May 17, 12:00 | 21.7N 122.1E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm | |
| May 17, 18:00 | 22.1N 123.1E | 1002 mb | Tropical storm | |
| May 18, 00:00 | 22.6N 124.4E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm | |
| May 18, 06:00 | 24.4N 127.0E | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2020
- Tropical Storm NuriWestern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm SinlakuWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon HagupitWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm JangmiWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon MekkhalaWestern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm HigosWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon BaviWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon MaysakWestern Pacific · 2020
- Super Typhoon HaishenWestern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm NoulWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm DolphinWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon KujiraWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon Chan-HomWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm LinfaWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm NangkaWestern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon SaudelWestern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon MolaveWestern Pacific · 2020
- Super Typhoon GoniWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm AtsaniWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm EtauWestern Pacific · 2020
- Typhoon VamcoWestern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Depression KrovanhWestern Pacific · 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.