Super Typhoon Saola (2023)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

August 22, 2023 to September 4, 2023

Peak strength

Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)

Lowest pressure

917 mb (27.08 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

42.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

275 nmi (509 km, 316 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

145 kt (167 mph)

Fastest the center moved

10 kt (12 mph)

Identifier

WP092023

The sources count different things and are not added together.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm SanvuWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Storm45 kt · 999 mb
• Super Typhoon MawarWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 5165 kt · 891 mb
• Typhoon GucholWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 295 kt · 958 mb
• Typhoon TalimWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 180 kt · 964 mb
• Super Typhoon DoksuriWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 4130 kt · 928 mb
• Typhoon KhanunWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 4125 kt · 924 mb
• Typhoon LanWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 4120 kt · 932 mb
• Tropical Storm DamreyWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Storm60 kt · 979 mb
• Typhoon HaikuiWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 3105 kt · 945 mb
• Typhoon KirogiWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 170 kt · 981 mb
• Tropical Storm Yun-YeungWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Storm45 kt · 988 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Depression30 kt · 995 mb
• Typhoon KoinuWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 4120 kt · 936 mb
• Super Typhoon BolavenWestern Pacific · 2023Cat 5165 kt · 897 mb
• Tropical Storm SanbaWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Depression25 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Depression JelawatWestern Pacific · 2023Tropical Depression30 kt · 1000 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Saola