Storm Record Desk Analysis Controls

Guided Views 9

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What The Map Shows

Track height follows wind speed, so a storm rises as it strengthens and settles as it fades.

Ask A Question

Ask in plain English. The question sets the filters below, and the count comes from the storm record.

Places All Places

Keeps storms whose center crossed the countries or territories you choose, most-hit first. Choose none to keep every place.

Years And Months 1945–2026

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Start Month End Month

The record begins in 1945, when aircraft reconnaissance of Pacific storms began. Routine satellite coverage arrived in the mid-1960s.

A storm is counted in the month it formed. Western Pacific typhoons form in every month of the year; the Eastern Pacific season runs May through November. Both peak from July through October.

Find A Storm

Searches every named storm. Press / to begin. Click any open water on the map to ask what has passed over that place.

Strength All Strengths

Choose the categories you want. Choose none to keep every strength.

Major typhoon means Category 3 or stronger, and a super typhoon is 150 mph or more. Each storm is grouped by the strongest wind it reached anywhere along its track, which is often far out at sea.

Map Story Color · Impact · Minimums

Color Tracks By Impact On Land Shows

A place counts as reached when the storm center was over its land, or within 40 km of one of its small islands. Each storm counts once per place. Select one storm to see only its footprint.

Storm Minimums

Show a storm only when it meets these values.

Minimum Energy Lowest Pressure Below

Only storms that reached land Only named storms

No extra filters applied.

NOAA IBTrACS Western and Eastern Pacific best track, 1945–2026, with JTWC and National Hurricane Center winds.

Typhoon History

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1945–2026

Play the record season by season.

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Typhoon Guide

Understand The Map And Storm Categories

This tool lives at typhoon.jbf.com. Its Atlantic sister is hurricane.jbf.com.

Every line on this map is one storm's path. Color shows the category the storm reached. Choose a single storm and switch to the 3D wind profile to see the track rise with the wind speed measured at each point along the way, climbing as the storm strengthens and settling as it weakens.

ShapeWhere Did It Go?

The six-hour positions recorded for the storm, drawn end to end.

ColorWhat Category?

The strongest category the storm reached anywhere along its path.

HeightHow Strong, And When?

In the wind profile, height is the wind at each point. It reads clearly for one storm; with the whole record raised at once the tracks overlap.

Using The Map

A Simple Three-Step Workflow

Choose the years and strength.Use the left panel or start with a guided view.
Play the timeline.Watch the record build season by season, or hold on a single year.
Select a storm.Click any track. The right panel tells that storm's story; the table below the map lists every storm behind the current view.

The Saffir-Simpson Scale, Applied To Typhoons

What The Categories Mean

A typhoon is the same kind of storm as a hurricane, given a different name west of the dateline. This map covers both sides: typhoons from the Western Pacific and hurricanes from the Eastern and Central Pacific, including the ones that reach Hawaii, Mexico, and the American Southwest. Every storm is graded on the Saffir-Simpson wind thresholds using one-minute sustained winds, so a Category 4 here means the same wind as a Category 4 on the Atlantic map. Categories describe wind only, not surge, rainfall, or size, which cause most deaths.

Category	Sustained Wind	Typical Effects
Depression	Under 39 mph	An organized system that has not yet reached storm strength.
Tropical Storm	39–73 mph	The storm earns a name. Downed limbs and local flooding.
Category 1	74–95 mph	Typhoon strength. Damage to roofing, siding, and trees.
Category 2	96–110 mph	Major roof and siding damage; near-total power loss.
Category 3	111–129 mph	Major typhoon. Homes lose roof decking and gables.
Category 4	130–156 mph	Severe damage; from 150 mph the center calls it a super typhoon.
Category 5	157 mph and higher	Catastrophic damage; a high share of homes destroyed.

“Super typhoon” is the Joint Typhoon Warning Center's term: one-minute winds of 150 mph or more. The Western Pacific produces more of these than any other basin on Earth. A weaker storm that stalls over the Philippines can still kill more people than a super typhoon that stays at sea.

Reading The Record

Compare Historical Periods Carefully

The record starts in 1945, when aircraft reconnaissance of Pacific storms began. Routine satellite coverage arrived in the mid-1960s; before that, storms that stayed at sea could be missed and positions can be off by dozens of miles.
Winds are one-minute sustained values: the Joint Typhoon Warning Center west of the dateline, the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center east of it. Japan's Meteorological Agency reports ten-minute winds, which run lower for the same storm, so category grades published in Asia will not always match these.
Central pressure is missing for many storms before the 1970s, so the map shows it only when it was recorded.
Landfalls are derived from the track: a landfall point is where the storm center moved from sea onto a country's land, or within 40 km of one of its small islands. An island chain like the Philippines therefore records several landfall points for one crossing.
Western Pacific tracks that cross the dateline usually end within a few degrees of it. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center stops tracking there, and no agency follows an extratropical system on into the Bering Sea, so the storms that reach the Aleutians and Alaska appear to stop at 180° when in fact only the record does.
This map deliberately carries no death or damage figures. Every number here comes from the best-track record itself.
The current season is a provisional operational track until the final best track is published, usually the following year.

About The Data

Record: 1945–2026
Storms: Pending
Super Typhoons: Pending
Track Points: Pending
Landfall Points: Pending

Source: NOAA International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), Western and Eastern Pacific basins, with one-minute winds and pressures from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the National Hurricane Center, and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Countries and territories come from Natural Earth; the United States is shown as Hawaii, Alaska, and the mainland.

Official References NOAA NCEI: IBTrACS Best Track Archive Joint Typhoon Warning Center National Hurricane Center: Eastern Pacific Best Track Data National Hurricane Center: The Saffir-Simpson Scale

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