Typhoon Malakas (2022)
Typhoon Malakas reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between April 6, 2022 and April 18, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 949 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Typhoon Malakas, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 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
- April 6, 2022 to April 18, 2022
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 949 mb (28.02 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 466 km (290 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 12.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 330 nmi (611 km, 380 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 175 nmi (324 km, 201 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 405 nmi (750 km, 466 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Identifier
- WP022022
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
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 June 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- 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 | 1 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 06:00 | 3.4N 150.2E | 1004 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Apr 6, 12:00 | 3.5N 149.6E | 1006 mb | Tropical storm | |
| Apr 6, 18:00 | 3.4N 149.1E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Apr 7, 00:00 | 3.7N 148.4E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 7, 06:00 | 4.0N 147.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Apr 7, 12:00 | 4.2N 147.1E | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 7, 18:00 | 4.3N 146.5E | 35 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 8, 00:00 | 5.1N 146.3E | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 8, 06:00 | 5.6N 145.8E | 40 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 8, 12:00 | 6.1N 145.5E | 40 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 8, 18:00 | 6.6N 144.9E | 40 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 9, 00:00 | 7.1N 144.4E | 40 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 9, 06:00 | 7.6N 143.7E | 45 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 9, 12:00 | 8.7N 142.6E | 45 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 9, 18:00 | 9.6N 141.7E | 50 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 00:00 | 10.5N 140.1E | 50 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 06:00 | 11.2N 138.8E | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 12:00 | 11.5N 137.9E | 55 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 10, 18:00 | 12.0N 137.0E | 55 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 11, 00:00 | 12.5N 136.5E | 55 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 11, 06:00 | 13.1N 136.1E | 55 kt | 986 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 11, 12:00 | 13.7N 135.8E | 55 kt | 987 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 11, 18:00 | 14.6N 135.4E | 50 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 12, 00:00 | 15.4N 135.0E | 60 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 12, 06:00 | 15.8N 135.0E | 60 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 12, 12:00 | 16.1N 135.3E | 65 kt | 980 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 12, 18:00 | 16.5N 135.8E | 80 kt | 969 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 13, 00:00 | 17.3N 136.4E | 90 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 13, 06:00 | 17.9N 137.0E | 90 kt | 961 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 13, 12:00 | 19.0N 137.6E | 95 kt | 957 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 13, 18:00 | 19.7N 137.5E | 105 kt | 949 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 14, 00:00 | 20.7N 138.0E | 90 kt | 960 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 14, 06:00 | 21.7N 138.5E | 80 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 14, 12:00 | 22.6N 139.2E | 75 kt | 971 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 14, 18:00 | 24.5N 139.6E | 70 kt | 975 mb | Typhoon |
| Apr 15, 00:00 | 26.3N 140.6E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 15, 06:00 | 27.9N 141.7E | 50 kt | 983 mb | Tropical storm |
| Apr 15, 12:00 | 30.2N 143.9E | 45 kt | 984 mb | Extratropical |
| Apr 15, 18:00 | 32.2N 146.4E | 972 mb | Mixed | |
| Apr 16, 00:00 | 34.8N 149.4E | 976 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 16, 06:00 | 37.9N 152.2E | 976 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 16, 12:00 | 41.7N 155.5E | 976 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 16, 18:00 | 44.7N 158.4E | 972 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 17, 00:00 | 46.6N 160.9E | 966 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 17, 06:00 | 49.0N 165.9E | 966 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 17, 12:00 | 51.1N 172.0E | 968 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 17, 18:00 | 52.8N 178.5E | 968 mb | Extratropical | |
| Apr 18, 00:00 | 53.3N 184.2E | Extratropical |
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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.