The 1950 season

Typhoon Kezia (1950)

Typhoon Kezia reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 4, 1950 and September 16, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Kezia, 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
September 4, 1950 to September 16, 1950
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
20.1
Fastest the center moved
48 kt (55 mph)
Identifier
WP091950

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
Sep 4, 06:0014.8N 145.2ETropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0015.4N 145.4ETropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0015.8N 145.3ETropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0015.9N 144.9ETropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0015.8N 144.0ETropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0015.6N 143.5ETropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0015.1N 143.3ETropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0014.8N 143.7ETropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0015.0N 144.2ETropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0015.5N 144.3ETropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0016.3N 144.1ETropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0017.0N 143.8E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0017.8N 143.5E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0018.0N 143.4E85 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0018.3N 143.2E85 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0018.9N 142.9E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0019.3N 142.6E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0020.0N 142.4E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0020.8N 142.2E100 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0021.7N 142.0E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0022.5N 141.4E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0023.2N 141.1E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0024.0N 140.5E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0024.6N 139.9E85 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0025.2N 139.0E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0025.9N 138.2E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0026.5N 137.3E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0027.0N 136.2E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0027.3N 135.5E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0027.8N 134.5E75 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0028.2N 133.9E80 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0028.8N 133.1E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0029.3N 132.7E90 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0029.7N 132.1E70 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0030.0N 131.9E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0030.4N 131.6E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0031.8N 131.0E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0032.5N 130.9E55 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0035.1N 131.1E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0037.3N 132.1E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0039.8N 133.6E45 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0041.5N 135.1E60 ktTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0042.3N 142.0E50 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0046.0N 146.2E40 ktMixed
Sep 15, 06:0049.0N 151.0E35 ktMixed
Sep 15, 12:0052.0N 155.0E30 ktMixed
Sep 15, 18:0051.8N 156.6EExtratropical
Sep 16, 00:0052.9N 161.9EExtratropical
Sep 16, 06:0054.8N 164.0EExtratropical

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.