Typhoon Nanmadol

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE.

The fourth tropical storm to strike the Philippines in two weeks moved ashore on December 2, 2004. The TRMM satellite captured this image of the weakening storm after it moved across Luzon.

The SeaWiFS sensor onboard the OrbView-2 satellite captured this visible image of Typhoon Nanmadol on December 2, 2004, at 4:15 UTC. At the time this image was taken Nanmadol was located approximately 590 miles east-southeast of Naga City and was moving towards the west-northwest at 27 mph. This make Nanmadol the fastest moving typhoon of the 2004 season. Maximum sustained winds were near 121 mph with higher gusts to 150 mph.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Start Date

    2004-12-02

  • Event Start Date

    2004-12-01

  • NH Image ID

    12602

  • NH Event ID

    10544

  • NH Posting Date

    2004-12-02