The 1949 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1949)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between September 21, 1949 and September 27, 1949.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
September 21, 1949 to September 27, 1949
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 842 km (523 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.7
Identifier
WP151949

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 21, 06:0016.3N 154.0EDisturbance
Sep 21, 12:0017.2N 154.0EDisturbance
Sep 21, 18:0018.2N 154.0EDisturbance
Sep 22, 00:0019.2N 154.0EDisturbance
Sep 22, 06:0020.2N 154.1EDisturbance
Sep 22, 12:0021.3N 154.2EDisturbance
Sep 22, 18:0022.5N 154.5ETropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0029.8N 159.8E20 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0030.2N 159.0E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0030.5N 158.1E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0030.9N 157.2E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0031.5N 156.3E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0032.1N 154.9E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0032.9N 153.5E40 ktTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0034.5N 152.9E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0036.4N 153.4E35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0038.0N 154.9E40 ktMixed
Sep 25, 12:0039.5N 156.5E35 ktMixed
Sep 25, 18:0041.0N 159.1E35 ktMixed
Sep 26, 00:0042.7N 161.8E40 ktMixed
Sep 26, 06:0043.6N 164.9E35 ktMixed
Sep 26, 12:0046.1N 166.3EExtratropical
Sep 26, 18:0047.3N 168.1EExtratropical
Sep 27, 00:0048.7N 171.1EExtratropical
Sep 27, 06:0050.2N 173.9EExtratropical
Sep 27, 12:0051.6N 175.3EExtratropical
Sep 27, 18:0053.3N 177.2EExtratropical

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.