The 1948 season

Typhoon Beverly (1948)

Typhoon Beverly reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between December 2, 1948 and December 10, 1948, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Beverly, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1948 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
December 2, 1948 to December 10, 1948
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.8
Identifier
WP251948

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
Dec 2, 06:008.9N 148.9E50 ktTropical storm
Dec 2, 12:009.3N 147.4E60 ktTropical storm
Dec 2, 18:009.7N 146.3E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 3, 00:0010.6N 145.0E75 ktTropical storm
Dec 3, 06:0011.3N 143.8E75 ktTropical storm
Dec 3, 12:0011.8N 142.8E75 ktTropical storm
Dec 3, 18:0012.2N 141.9E75 ktTropical storm
Dec 4, 00:0012.5N 141.1E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 4, 06:0012.9N 140.3E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 4, 12:0013.1N 139.6E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 4, 18:0013.2N 139.1E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 5, 00:0013.3N 138.6E65 ktTropical storm
Dec 5, 06:0013.4N 137.8E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 5, 12:0013.7N 136.6E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 5, 18:0014.0N 135.2E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 6, 00:0014.2N 133.7E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 6, 06:0014.4N 132.3E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 6, 12:0014.7N 131.2E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 6, 18:0014.9N 129.9E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 7, 00:0015.1N 128.7E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 7, 06:0015.4N 127.4E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 7, 12:0015.7N 126.1E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 7, 18:0016.0N 124.9E80 ktTropical storm
Dec 8, 00:0016.3N 123.8E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 8, 06:0016.5N 123.0E70 ktTropical storm
Dec 8, 12:0016.8N 121.9E60 ktTropical storm
Dec 8, 18:0017.0N 120.8E55 ktTropical storm
Dec 9, 00:0017.3N 120.1E45 ktTropical storm
Dec 9, 06:0017.6N 119.4E40 ktTropical storm
Dec 9, 12:0017.9N 118.9E40 ktTropical storm
Dec 9, 18:0018.3N 118.5E40 ktTropical storm
Dec 10, 00:0018.5N 118.2E35 ktTropical storm
Dec 10, 06:0018.7N 117.9E30 ktTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1948

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.