At this stage as the cyclone was moving Motion towards the southwest it posed Causation a severe threat to Vanuatu however , during that day Susan recurved Motion towards the southeast and subsequently spared Vanuatu a direct hit Attack .

The typhoon later entered Arriving the East China Sea , where it recurved Motion towards the northeast before making landfall Self_motion on South Korea as a severe tropical storm , later transitioning Change into an extratropical cyclone on September 16 .

The storm recurved Motion and accelerated Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to the northeast on October 11 and weakened to a Category 2 .

The hurricane Catastrophe steadily intensified Expansion as it recurved Motion northwards in the Gulf of Mexico , before reaching Arriving peak intensity just prior to landfall Motion near Houma , Louisiana on August 25 with winds of .

It recurved Motion toward the southwest while gradually weakening Cause_change_of_strength for several days .

It formed Coming_to_be southeast of Acapulco on October 6 as the twenty-fourth east Pacific tropical cyclone of its season , and recurved Self_motion as it strengthened Cause_change_of_strength .

Shortly thereafter , the hurricane recurved Self_motion northward , and reached Self_motion peak intensity the following day as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph ( 160 km/h ) and a minimum barometric pressure of at least 988 mbar ( hPa ; 29.18 inHg ) .