The 2023 season

Typhoon Haikui (2023)

Typhoon Haikui reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 27, 2023 and September 10, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Haikui, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 27, 2023 to September 10, 2023
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
12 nmi (22 km, 14 mi)
Overall size
260 nmi (482 km, 299 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
WP102023

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 27, 00:0018.1N 144.4ETropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0018.3N 144.4E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0016.7N 144.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 27, 18:0017.2N 144.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 28, 00:0017.6N 143.4E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Aug 28, 06:0018.0N 142.1E20 kt998 mbDisturbance
Aug 28, 12:0018.3N 140.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0018.7N 139.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0019.0N 138.4E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0019.1N 137.1E50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0019.5N 136.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0019.9N 136.5E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0020.1N 136.1E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0020.4N 135.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0020.5N 134.9E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0020.9N 134.0E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0021.2N 132.9E55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0021.5N 132.1E55 kt983 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0021.7N 131.4E65 kt980 mbTyphoon
Aug 31, 18:0022.0N 130.3E65 kt978 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 00:0022.2N 129.6E70 kt975 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 06:0022.1N 128.7E75 kt971 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 12:0021.8N 128.0E80 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 18:0022.1N 127.1E80 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 00:0022.3N 126.3E85 kt962 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 06:0022.4N 125.4E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 12:0022.7N 124.2E80 kt965 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 18:0022.6N 123.3E90 kt958 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 00:0022.6N 122.6E100 kt951 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 06:0022.8N 121.4E105 kt945 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 12:0022.8N 120.1E85 kt965 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 18:0022.6N 120.2E70 kt971 mbTyphoon
Sep 4, 00:0023.2N 119.7E65 kt973 mbTyphoon
Sep 4, 06:0023.3N 119.2E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0023.5N 118.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0023.6N 117.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0023.6N 116.7E30 kt985 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0023.7N 116.0E20 kt990 mbDisturbance
Sep 5, 12:0023.6N 116.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0023.4N 115.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0023.3N 115.1E1006 mbMixed
Sep 6, 06:0023.1N 114.8EDisturbance
Sep 6, 12:0022.9N 114.6EDisturbance
Sep 6, 18:0022.7N 114.2EDisturbance
Sep 7, 00:0023.0N 113.8EDisturbance
Sep 7, 06:0023.2N 113.4EDisturbance
Sep 7, 12:0023.2N 113.2EDisturbance
Sep 7, 18:0023.0N 112.7EDisturbance
Sep 8, 00:0022.7N 111.9EDisturbance
Sep 8, 06:0022.6N 111.1EDisturbance
Sep 8, 12:0022.2N 110.8EDisturbance
Sep 8, 18:0021.5N 110.3EDisturbance
Sep 9, 00:0021.2N 109.8EDisturbance
Sep 9, 06:0021.5N 110.0EDisturbance
Sep 9, 12:0021.6N 110.0EDisturbance
Sep 9, 18:0021.7N 110.0EDisturbance
Sep 10, 00:0022.1N 110.0EDisturbance
Sep 10, 06:0022.6N 109.7EDisturbance
Sep 10, 12:0022.3N 109.4EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 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.