The 1945 season

Typhoon Louise (1945)

Typhoon Louise reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between October 2, 1945 and October 12, 1945, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Louise, 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
October 2, 1945 to October 12, 1945
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.4
Fastest the center moved
30 kt (35 mph)
Identifier
WP231945

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
Oct 2, 00:009.0N 161.0E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:009.3N 159.6E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:009.7N 158.2E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0010.0N 156.8E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0010.5N 155.5E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0011.0N 154.0E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0011.5N 152.7E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0012.0N 151.4E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0012.5N 150.0E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0013.2N 148.0E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0013.7N 146.8E35 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0014.3N 145.4E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0015.0N 144.0E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0015.8N 142.8E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0016.4N 141.6E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0017.0N 140.3E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0017.5N 139.0E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0018.0N 137.6E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0018.5N 136.2E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0019.0N 134.8E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0019.5N 133.5E50 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0019.9N 132.3E50 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0020.4N 131.2E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0021.0N 130.0E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0021.5N 129.0E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0022.0N 128.5E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0022.8N 128.0E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0023.5N 127.6E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0024.5N 127.5E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0025.8N 127.5E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0027.0N 127.6E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0028.3N 128.0E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0029.5N 128.5E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0030.9N 129.9E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0032.0N 131.5E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0033.0N 133.0E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0034.0N 135.0E50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0035.1N 136.9E50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0038.0N 138.0E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0039.0N 137.5E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0039.5N 137.0E30 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.