The 2022 season

Super Typhoon Noru (2022)

Super Typhoon Noru reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 21, 2022 and September 29, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 914 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Noru, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 21, 2022 to September 29, 2022
Peak strength
Category 5, 145 kt (167 mph)
Lowest pressure
914 mb (26.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.6
Identifier
WP182022

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 21, 00:0017.4N 132.4E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 06:0017.4N 133.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 12:0017.5N 133.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 21, 18:0017.7N 134.2E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 22, 00:0017.8N 134.6E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 22, 06:0017.9N 134.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0018.0N 134.0E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0018.2N 133.4E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0018.0N 132.4E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0017.7N 131.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0017.5N 130.5E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0016.9N 129.3E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0016.2N 128.1E60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0015.8N 126.9E70 kt979 mbTyphoon
Sep 24, 12:0015.4N 125.9E100 kt957 mbTyphoon
Sep 24, 18:0015.2N 124.7E145 kt914 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 00:0015.0N 123.6E135 kt919 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 06:0015.0N 122.4E130 kt925 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 25, 12:0015.1N 121.4E115 kt932 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0015.4N 119.8E90 kt968 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0015.9N 118.3E80 kt979 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0015.9N 116.9E75 kt965 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0015.9N 115.4E90 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 18:0015.8N 113.6E105 kt954 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 00:0015.4N 112.0E120 kt930 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 06:0015.6N 111.2E130 kt928 mbSuper typhoon
Sep 27, 12:0015.7N 110.2E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 18:0015.8N 108.9E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 00:0015.8N 107.7E75 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 28, 06:0015.6N 105.3E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0015.5N 103.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0015.9N 104.7E996 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0016.0N 103.9E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0016.0N 103.3E1000 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2022

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.