The 2024 season

Typhoon Shanshan (2024)

Typhoon Shanshan reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 20, 2024 and September 1, 2024, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 20, 2024 to September 1, 2024
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.6
Identifier
WP112024

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Aug 20, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 20, 06:0014.8N 147.7E1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0015.2N 146.3E1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0015.2N 145.5E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 21, 00:0015.5N 144.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 21, 06:0016.2N 143.5E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 12:0016.9N 142.6E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0016.9N 142.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0016.9N 141.4E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0017.0N 141.1E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0017.2N 140.9E50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0017.5N 141.0E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0017.8N 141.2E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0017.9N 141.2E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0018.1N 141.1E65 kt985 mbTyphoon
Aug 23, 18:0018.7N 141.4E65 kt985 mbTyphoon
Aug 24, 00:0020.0N 141.3E65 kt985 mbTyphoon
Aug 24, 06:0021.4N 141.0E65 kt983 mbTyphoon
Aug 24, 12:0022.7N 140.7E65 kt982 mbTyphoon
Aug 24, 18:0024.0N 140.0E65 kt980 mbTyphoon
Aug 25, 00:0024.9N 138.9E65 kt979 mbTyphoon
Aug 25, 06:0025.8N 137.9E70 kt975 mbTyphoon
Aug 25, 12:0026.5N 136.6E75 kt974 mbTyphoon
Aug 25, 18:0026.9N 135.0E75 kt971 mbTyphoon
Aug 26, 00:0027.3N 133.7E70 kt976 mbTyphoon
Aug 26, 06:0027.5N 132.8E80 kt972 mbTyphoon
Aug 26, 12:0027.7N 131.9E90 kt966 mbTyphoon
Aug 26, 18:0028.0N 131.1E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Aug 27, 00:0028.2N 130.7E105 kt943 mbTyphoon
Aug 27, 06:0028.4N 130.5E110 kt938 mbTyphoon
Aug 27, 12:0028.6N 130.3E115 kt935 mbTyphoon
Aug 27, 18:0029.0N 130.1E110 kt936 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 00:0029.3N 130.0E110 kt936 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 06:0030.0N 130.0E100 kt945 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 12:0030.6N 130.0E95 kt949 mbTyphoon
Aug 28, 18:0031.3N 130.0E85 kt957 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 00:0031.9N 130.2E75 kt966 mbTyphoon
Aug 29, 06:0032.7N 130.5E60 kt976 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0033.3N 130.8E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0033.5N 131.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0033.7N 131.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0033.9N 132.2E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0034.1N 133.1E30 kt993 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 18:0034.1N 134.4E30 kt993 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 00:0033.6N 135.5E30 kt993 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0033.4N 136.3E25 kt995 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0033.1N 137.2E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0033.0N 137.1E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0033.2N 136.8E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0033.9N 136.9E25 kt999 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0035.0N 136.4E20 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Sep 1, 18:0035.8N 136.5E15 kt1001 mbDisturbance

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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.