The 1950 season

Typhoon Billie (1950)

Typhoon Billie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between November 4, 1950 and November 11, 1950.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Billie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1950 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
November 4, 1950 to November 11, 1950
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1335 km (830 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.2
Identifier
WP151950

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
Nov 4, 06:0013.0N 150.8ETropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0013.6N 149.8ETropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0014.3N 148.8ETropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0015.0N 148.3E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0015.4N 147.5E65 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0015.9N 146.5E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0016.7N 145.5E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0017.6N 144.5E75 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0018.5N 143.9E75 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0019.6N 143.6E75 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0020.7N 143.7E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0021.7N 144.1E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0022.1N 144.5E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0022.8N 145.2E55 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0023.4N 146.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0024.0N 146.6E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0025.0N 147.9E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0026.3N 149.4E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0027.5N 151.0E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0028.5N 152.3E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0026.4N 157.9ETropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0027.0N 161.0EExtratropical
Nov 9, 18:0027.7N 164.3EExtratropical
Nov 10, 00:0028.1N 167.0EExtratropical
Nov 10, 06:0028.9N 170.0EExtratropical
Nov 10, 12:0029.8N 172.7EExtratropical
Nov 10, 18:0031.0N 175.5EExtratropical
Nov 11, 00:0032.4N 177.9EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1950

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.