The 1950 season

Typhoon Jane (1950)

Typhoon Jane reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 29, 1950 and September 6, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Jane, 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
August 29, 1950 to September 6, 1950
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.2
Fastest the center moved
40 kt (46 mph)
Identifier
WP081950

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
Aug 29, 06:0023.1N 140.1ETropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0023.3N 139.9ETropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0023.4N 139.7ETropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0024.0N 140.0E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0024.0N 139.8E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0024.1N 139.2E45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0024.2N 138.8E45 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0024.3N 138.3E50 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0024.4N 138.1E55 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0024.7N 137.3E55 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0025.0N 136.6E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0025.3N 136.0E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0025.8N 135.5E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0026.2N 134.9E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0027.1N 134.1E85 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0027.9N 133.9E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0028.8N 133.8E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0029.6N 133.9E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0031.8N 134.1E95 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0033.9N 135.1E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0036.1N 136.1E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0038.4N 138.0E55 ktMixed
Sep 3, 18:0041.0N 140.4E45 ktMixed
Sep 4, 00:0043.2N 143.1E40 ktMixed
Sep 4, 06:0045.3N 146.0E35 ktMixed
Sep 4, 12:0045.2N 147.8EExtratropical
Sep 4, 18:0045.7N 150.4EExtratropical
Sep 5, 00:0046.7N 152.8EExtratropical
Sep 5, 06:0047.0N 155.0EExtratropical
Sep 5, 12:0047.1N 157.0EExtratropical
Sep 5, 18:0047.5N 159.4EExtratropical
Sep 6, 00:0048.0N 160.2EExtratropical
Sep 6, 06:0048.5N 166.0EExtratropical
Sep 6, 12:0048.7N 171.5EExtratropical
Sep 6, 18:0049.2N 177.5EExtratropical

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.