Super Typhoon Bolaven (2023)
Super Typhoon Bolaven reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between October 6, 2023 and October 16, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 897 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Super Typhoon Bolaven, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 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
- October 6, 2023 to October 16, 2023
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 165 kt (190 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 897 mb (26.49 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 909 km (565 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 27.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 370 nmi (685 km, 426 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 110 nmi (204 km, 127 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
- Overall size
- 440 nmi (815 km, 506 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 75 kt (86 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 47 kt (54 mph)
- Identifier
- WP152023
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 March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 3 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guam | 0 | 0 | 3 |
What was recorded
2 hurricane (typhoon), 1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 00:00 | 8.0N 156.5E | 15 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 8.4N 156.3E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 6, 12:00 | 8.8N 156.0E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 6, 18:00 | 9.0N 155.5E | 20 kt | 1006 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 7, 00:00 | 9.1N 155.0E | 25 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 06:00 | 9.2N 154.4E | 30 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 12:00 | 9.4N 154.0E | 30 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 18:00 | 9.4N 153.5E | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 00:00 | 9.4N 153.0E | 35 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 06:00 | 9.8N 152.7E | 40 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 10.2N 152.3E | 45 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 10.7N 151.5E | 50 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 11.0N 150.5E | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 11.3N 149.5E | 55 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 11.9N 148.5E | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 13.0N 147.5E | 60 kt | 988 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 13.7N 146.5E | 70 kt | 990 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 14.3N 145.6E | 70 kt | 982 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 15.2N 145.0E | 80 kt | 975 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 16.0N 144.5E | 100 kt | 959 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 17.1N 144.0E | 135 kt | 926 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 18.2N 143.4E | 145 kt | 916 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 18.9N 143.0E | 155 kt | 904 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 19.7N 142.9E | 165 kt | 897 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 20.6N 143.0E | 155 kt | 900 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 21.8N 143.4E | 155 kt | 904 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 22.8N 144.3E | 145 kt | 909 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 24.1N 145.4E | 140 kt | 909 mb | Super typhoon |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 25.6N 146.9E | 125 kt | 926 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 27.1N 148.6E | 105 kt | 946 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 29.5N 150.7E | 95 kt | 949 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 31.2N 153.2E | 90 kt | 950 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 34.3N 156.3E | 80 kt | 964 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 37.0N 160.2E | 70 kt | 968 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 14, 12:00 | 40.7N 165.0E | 65 kt | 971 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 14, 18:00 | 42.4N 167.8E | 55 kt | 968 mb | Extratropical |
| Oct 15, 00:00 | 44.3N 171.4E | 952 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 15, 06:00 | 44.9N 174.9E | 954 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 15, 12:00 | 45.3N 179.3E | 956 mb | Extratropical | |
| Oct 15, 18:00 | 45.7N 182.8E | Extratropical | ||
| Oct 16, 00:00 | 45.3N 186.0E | Extratropical | ||
| Oct 16, 06:00 | 44.4N 190.8E | Extratropical | ||
| Oct 16, 12:00 | 43.3N 194.6E | Extratropical |
Other Western Pacific storms of 2023
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023
- Tropical Storm SanvuWestern Pacific · 2023
- Super Typhoon MawarWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon GucholWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon TalimWestern Pacific · 2023
- Super Typhoon DoksuriWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon KhanunWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon LanWestern Pacific · 2023
- Tropical Storm DamreyWestern Pacific · 2023
- Super Typhoon SaolaWestern Pacific · 2023 · 3 deaths
- Typhoon HaikuiWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon KirogiWestern Pacific · 2023
- Tropical Storm Yun-YeungWestern Pacific · 2023
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023
- Typhoon KoinuWestern Pacific · 2023
- Tropical Storm SanbaWestern Pacific · 2023
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023
- Tropical Depression JelawatWestern Pacific · 2023
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.