Typhoon Hato path, 2017

What the record says

Hato was a typhoon in the Western North Pacific basin that lasted about 6 days, from 19 August 2017 to 25 August 2017. Its peak was Category 2 (90 kt) on 23 August 2017, with a 1-minute sustained wind of 90 kt (104 mph, 167 km/h). Its lowest recorded pressure was 965 hPa.

• Category 2peak intensity
• 90 ktpeak wind (104 mph)
• 965 hPalowest pressure
• 6 dayslifetime

Source of the peak wind: US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific). The regional forecast centre (RSMC Tokyo (Japan Meteorological Agency)) gave a peak of 75 kt on its own averaging convention (10-minute winds), so the two figures differ.

It has its own page because it is among the best-known storms in the record and it is a well-known storm.

This page gives the official record's figures. It does not describe the human cost of the storm, which is far larger than any wind speed or pressure here.

Where it came ashore

• 23 August 2017: People's Republic of China (85 kt)

A landfall here is the first tropical position over land after time at sea, so it is within about six hours of the real event. The record shows up to 8.

Countries it came within 50 km of

Strongest effect first.

• People's Republic of China
• Hong Kong
• Macau
• Philippines
• Vietnam

How to read this track

The line joins the storm's six-hourly positions with straight lines, coloured by its intensity at each point, so it shows how the storm strengthened and weakened. The real path curved between the positions. A dashed grey stretch means the storm had become post-tropical. Records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are estimates.

Source: NOAA NCEI IBTrACS, public domain. See data sources and caveats.