The 1945 season

Tropical Storm Doris (1945)

Tropical Storm Doris peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between June 18, 1945 and June 21, 1945.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Doris, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1945 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
June 18, 1945 to June 21, 1945
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 920 km (572 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.7
Identifier
WP041945

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 18, 12:0013.0N 134.0E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0014.0N 134.4E40 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0015.0N 134.9E45 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0016.0N 135.5E40 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0017.0N 136.0E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0018.2N 136.2E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0019.3N 136.5E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 06:0020.4N 136.7E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 12:0021.5N 137.0E40 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 18:0022.7N 138.5E40 ktTropical storm
Jun 21, 00:0023.8N 140.0E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 21, 06:0024.9N 141.5E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 21, 12:0026.0N 143.0E35 ktTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1945

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.