Champasak, Laos: storm history

54 storms have passed within 50 km of Champasak from 1888 to 2025. The map shows Laos; search for a town in Champasak to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Champasak

The record holds 54 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Champasak, Laos between 1888 and 2025. The busiest month is October, with 21 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 1 strength. 15 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 54storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 3at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Champasak?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1833%
Tropical storm1833%
Category 136%
Category 200%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity1528%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific).

Champasak storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in 1990s.1880s11900s11920s21930s11950s61960s61970s61980s71990s122000s32010s32020s6

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1888, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1880s1
1900s1
1920s2
1930s1
1950s6
1960s6
1970s6
1980s7
1990s12
2000s3
2010s3
2020s6

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 21 in Oct.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May1Jun2Jul1Aug2Sep12Oct21Nov11Dec4
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May1
Jun2
Jul1
Aug2
Sep12
Oct21
Nov11
Dec4

Strongest storms near Champasak

  • Xangsane (2006)25 September 2006 to 2 October 2006, Category 1 (75 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 940 hPa
  • Noru (2022)21 September 2022 to 29 September 2022, Category 1 (75 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 940 hPa
  • Zack (1995)21 October 1995 to 2 November 1995, Category 1 (70 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (120 kt), 950 hPa
  • Nari (2013)8 October 2013 to 16 October 2013, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 965 hPa
  • Kalmaegi (2025)31 October 2025 to 7 November 2025, Tropical storm (57 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 950 hPa, provisional

Most recent storms near Champasak

  • Kalmaegi (2025)31 October 2025 to 7 November 2025, Tropical storm (57 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 950 hPa, provisional
  • Yinxing (2024)2 November 2024 to 13 November 2024, Tropical depression (20 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 945 hPa
  • Noru (2022)21 September 2022 to 29 September 2022, Category 1 (75 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 940 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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