The 1950 season

Tropical Storm Delilah (1950)

Tropical Storm Delilah peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between November 18, 1950 and November 25, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Delilah, 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 18, 1950 to November 25, 1950
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
WP171950

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 18, 06:006.5N 138.3EDisturbance
Nov 18, 12:006.6N 136.3EDisturbance
Nov 18, 18:006.8N 134.4EDisturbance
Nov 19, 00:007.2N 133.0EDisturbance
Nov 19, 06:007.6N 131.7ETropical storm
Nov 19, 12:008.1N 130.5ETropical storm
Nov 19, 18:008.7N 128.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 00:008.9N 127.1E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 06:009.3N 125.7E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0010.2N 123.2E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 18:0010.8N 122.1E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0011.5N 120.6E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0012.1N 119.5E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0012.7N 118.2E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0013.2N 117.1E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0013.8N 116.0E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0014.3N 115.0E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0015.0N 113.8E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0015.6N 112.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0016.1N 111.4ETropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0017.0N 110.7ETropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0018.1N 110.3ETropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0018.9N 110.2ETropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0019.7N 110.5ETropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0020.4N 111.4ETropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0020.8N 112.5ETropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0021.0N 114.0ETropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0021.0N 115.5ETropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0020.7N 117.1EDisturbance

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.