The 1950 season

Tropical Storm Flossie:Grace (1950)

Tropical Storm Flossie:Grace peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 15, 1950 and July 22, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Flossie:Grace, 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
July 15, 1950 to July 22, 1950
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Identifier
WP041950

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 15, 06:0021.5N 144.0ETropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0022.0N 142.3E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0022.3N 141.1E55 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0022.7N 140.0E55 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0023.0N 138.8E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0023.3N 137.1E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0023.8N 135.7E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0024.8N 134.3E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0026.9N 133.4E55 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0028.8N 132.4E60 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0030.1N 130.8E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0030.8N 130.0E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0029.0N 129.0E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0027.8N 127.7E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0028.2N 128.5E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0028.5N 129.3E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0029.5N 129.2E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0030.8N 128.8E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0031.2N 128.0E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0031.3N 128.3E60 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0031.6N 128.2E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0032.0N 128.0E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0032.4N 127.7E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0033.1N 127.3E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0034.0N 127.0E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0035.0N 127.0E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0036.0N 127.0E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0037.1N 126.0ETropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0038.0N 125.2ETropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0039.5N 124.1ETropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0041.4N 124.5EDisturbance

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.