The 1949 season

Typhoon Lise (1949)

Typhoon Lise reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between August 31, 1949 and September 9, 1949.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Lise, 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
August 31, 1949 to September 9, 1949
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 360 km (224 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.8
Identifier
WP101949

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 31, 00:0016.7N 145.3E25 ktMixed
Aug 31, 06:0016.7N 144.3E25 ktMixed
Aug 31, 12:0016.7N 143.3E25 ktMixed
Aug 31, 18:0016.7N 142.4E25 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0016.7N 141.5E25 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0016.8N 140.4E25 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0016.9N 139.5E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0017.0N 138.7E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0017.3N 137.9E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0017.9N 137.0E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0018.5N 136.6E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0019.3N 136.8E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0019.9N 137.1E85 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0020.2N 137.6E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0021.0N 138.7E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0021.5N 139.8E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0022.1N 140.5E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0022.7N 141.1E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0023.8N 142.2E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0024.9N 142.9E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0025.7N 143.2E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0027.1N 144.1E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0028.3N 144.9E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0029.7N 145.7E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0031.0N 146.8E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0032.4N 147.7E120 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0033.9N 149.1E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0035.0N 150.4E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0036.4N 152.2E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0037.6N 154.1E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0037.7N 150.4ETropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0038.5N 150.4ETropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0039.3N 150.4ETropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0040.4N 150.8ETropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0041.6N 152.0EExtratropical
Sep 8, 18:0043.0N 153.8EExtratropical
Sep 9, 00:0044.4N 155.4EExtratropical
Sep 9, 06:0046.6N 157.7EExtratropical
Sep 9, 12:0047.4N 158.4EExtratropical

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.