The 1950 season

Typhoon Grace (1950)

Typhoon Grace reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between July 13, 1950 and July 18, 1950.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon 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 13, 1950 to July 18, 1950
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 580 km (360 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
WP051950

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 13, 12:0016.9N 139.0EDisturbance
Jul 13, 18:0017.2N 137.5EDisturbance
Jul 14, 00:0017.5N 136.3EDisturbance
Jul 14, 06:0017.5N 135.0EDisturbance
Jul 14, 12:0017.6N 134.0EDisturbance
Jul 14, 18:0017.8N 133.0EDisturbance
Jul 15, 00:0018.0N 132.0EDisturbance
Jul 15, 06:0018.2N 131.0EDisturbance
Jul 15, 12:0018.4N 130.3ETropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0018.6N 129.6ETropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0019.0N 129.2ETropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0019.5N 128.9ETropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0021.0N 131.3E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0021.9N 130.5E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0022.3N 130.1E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0022.8N 129.7E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0023.3N 129.5E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0023.5N 129.2E50 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0024.0N 128.9E60 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0025.3N 128.6E70 ktTropical storm

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.