The 1949 season

Typhoon Faye (1949)

Typhoon Faye reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between July 10, 1949 and July 19, 1949, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Faye, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1949 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
July 10, 1949 to July 19, 1949
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.7
Identifier
WP041949

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
Jul 10, 18:0019.1N 141.8EDisturbance
Jul 11, 00:0019.2N 141.1ETropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0019.3N 140.4ETropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0019.5N 139.7ETropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0019.7N 139.1ETropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0019.8N 138.5ETropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0020.5N 139.5E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0020.5N 138.7E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0020.5N 137.8E55 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0020.7N 136.8E70 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0021.0N 135.8E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0021.2N 135.0E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0021.7N 134.1E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0022.2N 133.4E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0023.0N 132.6E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0023.3N 132.1E80 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0024.0N 131.6E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0024.7N 131.0E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0025.4N 130.5E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0026.1N 130.1E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0027.0N 129.9E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0027.8N 129.8E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0028.4N 129.7E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0029.0N 129.8E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0030.0N 129.9E90 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0031.0N 130.0E75 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0031.8N 130.0E70 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0032.5N 130.1E65 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0033.1N 130.2E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0033.8N 130.3E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0034.5N 130.4E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0035.3N 130.6E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0036.0N 131.0E40 ktMixed
Jul 19, 00:0037.0N 131.5E35 ktMixed
Jul 19, 06:0038.0N 133.0E30 ktMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1949

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.