The 1945 season

Tropical Storm Edna (1945)

Tropical Storm Edna peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between July 23, 1945 and July 30, 1945.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Edna, 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
July 23, 1945 to July 30, 1945
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 903 km (561 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
WP081945

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
Jul 23, 12:0010.4N 138.2ETropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0012.4N 140.3ETropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0014.1N 142.1ETropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0015.4N 143.5ETropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0016.4N 144.7ETropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0017.3N 145.7ETropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0018.2N 146.7ETropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0019.1N 147.8ETropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0020.1N 148.8ETropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0021.0N 149.8ETropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0021.6N 150.4ETropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0021.9N 150.7ETropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0022.1N 151.0ETropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0022.4N 151.3ETropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0022.8N 151.7ETropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0023.4N 152.0ETropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0022.0N 154.0E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0023.0N 153.7E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0023.9N 153.2E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0024.9N 152.9E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0026.0N 152.5E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0027.0N 152.5E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0028.0N 152.5E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0029.0N 152.4E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0030.0N 152.4E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0028.3N 150.4ETropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0028.8N 149.8ETropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0029.6N 148.9ETropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0030.4N 148.6ETropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0031.3N 149.1ETropical 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.