Tropical Storm Frances (1945)
Tropical Storm Frances peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 9, 1945 and August 13, 1945.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Frances, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- August 9, 1945 to August 13, 1945
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 769 km (478 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 2.3
- Identifier
- WP111945
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) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:00 | 22.0N 149.0E | 25 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 9, 18:00 | 23.2N 148.4E | 30 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 10, 00:00 | 24.6N 148.0E | 30 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 10, 06:00 | 25.7N 147.5E | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 10, 12:00 | 27.0N 147.0E | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 10, 18:00 | 27.4N 146.7E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 11, 00:00 | 27.9N 146.4E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 11, 06:00 | 28.5N 146.2E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 11, 12:00 | 29.0N 146.0E | 50 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 11, 18:00 | 29.7N 146.4E | 50 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 12, 00:00 | 30.4N 147.0E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 12, 06:00 | 31.1N 147.3E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 12, 12:00 | 32.0N 148.0E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 12, 18:00 | 32.8N 149.0E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 13, 00:00 | 33.7N 150.0E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 13, 06:00 | 34.6N 150.9E | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 13, 12:00 | 35.5N 152.0E | 40 kt | Tropical storm |
Other Western Pacific storms of 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm AnnWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm BettyWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon ConnieWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm DorisWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm NancyWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon OpalWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm PeggyWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm EdnaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon EvaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon QueenieWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm GraceWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon SusanWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon TessWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon HelenWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon UrsulaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon IdaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm VernaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm WandaWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon JeanWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm KateWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon LouiseWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm MargeWestern Pacific · 1945
- Tropical Storm YvonneWestern Pacific · 1945
- Typhoon NoraWestern Pacific · 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.