The 1945 season

Typhoon Susan (1945)

Typhoon Susan reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 17, 1945 and August 29, 1945, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Susan, 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
August 17, 1945 to August 29, 1945
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.1
Identifier
WP141945

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
Aug 17, 12:0015.2N 137.0ENot reported
Aug 17, 18:0015.8N 136.4ENot reported
Aug 18, 00:0016.2N 135.9ENot reported
Aug 18, 06:0016.5N 135.5ENot reported
Aug 18, 12:0016.7N 135.3ENot reported
Aug 18, 18:0017.0N 135.1ENot reported
Aug 19, 00:0017.3N 134.9ENot reported
Aug 19, 06:0017.8N 134.6ENot reported
Aug 19, 12:0018.1N 134.4ENot reported
Aug 19, 18:0018.3N 134.2ENot reported
Aug 20, 00:0018.7N 133.8ENot reported
Aug 20, 06:0019.3N 133.3ENot reported
Aug 20, 12:0019.8N 132.7ENot reported
Aug 20, 18:0020.2N 131.9ENot reported
Aug 21, 00:0020.4N 131.1ENot reported
Aug 21, 06:0020.5N 130.4ENot reported
Aug 21, 12:0020.6N 129.6ENot reported
Aug 21, 18:0020.8N 128.7ENot reported
Aug 22, 00:0021.0N 128.2ENot reported
Aug 22, 06:0021.3N 128.0ENot reported
Aug 22, 12:0021.5N 127.9ENot reported
Aug 22, 18:0021.8N 127.9ENot reported
Aug 23, 00:0023.3N 124.7E60 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0023.4N 125.7E60 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0023.5N 126.7E60 ktTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0023.7N 127.8E70 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0023.8N 128.7E70 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0024.0N 129.6E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0024.3N 130.5E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0024.6N 131.4E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0025.0N 132.2E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0025.6N 133.0E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0026.4N 133.4E80 ktTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0027.1N 133.7E80 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0028.0N 133.7E80 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0029.0N 133.8E80 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0030.1N 133.7E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0031.0N 133.5E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0032.0N 133.2E75 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0033.1N 133.2E60 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0034.1N 133.2E50 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0035.2N 133.3E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0036.5N 133.4E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0040.5N 134.5ENot reported
Aug 28, 12:0041.7N 136.4ENot reported
Aug 28, 18:0042.8N 138.2ENot reported
Aug 29, 00:0044.3N 139.5ENot reported
Aug 29, 06:0046.0N 140.4ENot reported
Aug 29, 12:0047.5N 141.6ENot reported
Aug 29, 18:0048.8N 143.6ENot 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.