The 1948 season

Typhoon Jackie (1948)

Typhoon Jackie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 11, 1948 and September 18, 1948, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Jackie, 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.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 11, 1948 to September 18, 1948
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.4
Identifier
WP151948

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
Sep 11, 00:0017.2N 136.7E45 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0017.5N 136.0E45 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0017.7N 135.7E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0018.0N 135.0E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0018.3N 134.5E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0018.7N 133.8E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0019.1N 132.9E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0019.4N 131.8E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0019.4N 131.1E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0019.4N 130.3E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0019.4N 129.7E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0019.5N 129.1E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0019.6N 128.8E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0019.8N 128.4E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0020.0N 128.1E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0020.2N 127.8E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0020.3N 127.4E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0020.5N 127.0E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0020.8N 126.6E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0021.2N 126.1E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0021.8N 125.3E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0022.3N 124.5E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0022.9N 123.9E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0023.5N 123.2E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0024.1N 122.4E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0024.6N 121.8E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0025.3N 121.0E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0025.8N 120.0E55 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0026.0N 119.0E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0026.4N 118.2E45 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.