The 1945 season

Typhoon Nora (1945)

Typhoon Nora reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between November 22, 1945 and December 1, 1945.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nora, 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
November 22, 1945 to December 1, 1945
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 302 km (188 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.2
Identifier
WP261945

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
Nov 22, 00:0010.0N 138.6E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0010.2N 137.3E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0010.5N 136.2E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0010.8N 135.0E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0011.2N 133.8E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0011.6N 132.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0012.1N 131.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0012.6N 130.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0013.1N 129.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0013.7N 128.1E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0013.9N 127.7E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0014.2N 127.5E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0014.6N 127.2E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0015.0N 127.1E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 12:0015.5N 127.5E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 18:0015.9N 128.1E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 26, 00:0016.2N 128.8E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 26, 06:0016.3N 129.3E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 26, 12:0016.6N 130.5E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 26, 18:0016.8N 131.4E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 27, 00:0017.1N 132.3E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 27, 06:0017.3N 133.0E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 27, 12:0017.7N 134.0E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 27, 18:0018.1N 134.9E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 28, 00:0018.4N 135.8E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 28, 06:0018.9N 136.8E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 28, 12:0019.4N 137.7E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 28, 18:0019.8N 138.7E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 29, 00:0020.3N 139.5E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 29, 06:0020.7N 140.3E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 29, 12:0021.6N 140.4ENot reported
Nov 29, 18:0021.9N 141.6ENot reported
Nov 30, 00:0022.1N 142.8ENot reported
Nov 30, 06:0022.2N 143.9ENot reported
Nov 30, 12:0022.4N 145.0ENot reported
Nov 30, 18:0022.7N 146.0ENot reported
Dec 1, 00:0023.1N 147.3ENot reported
Dec 1, 06:0023.5N 148.9ENot reported
Dec 1, 12:0024.0N 150.5ENot reported
Dec 1, 18:0024.6N 152.0ENot reported

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.