The 1950 season

Typhoon Ossia (1950)

Typhoon Ossia reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 25, 1950 and October 7, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Ossia, 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 25, 1950 to October 7, 1950
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.0
Identifier
WP121950

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 25, 18:005.4N 153.4EDisturbance
Sep 26, 00:006.5N 151.8EDisturbance
Sep 26, 06:007.6N 150.4EDisturbance
Sep 26, 12:008.7N 148.8EDisturbance
Sep 26, 18:009.7N 147.3EDisturbance
Sep 27, 00:0010.5N 146.0EDisturbance
Sep 27, 06:0011.2N 144.6ETropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0011.6N 143.6ETropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0011.9N 142.7ETropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0012.1N 141.7ETropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0012.4N 140.6ETropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0012.7N 139.4ETropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0012.9N 138.3ETropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0013.1N 137.0ETropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0013.5N 135.6ETropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0013.7N 134.1ETropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0013.9N 132.6ETropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0014.2N 131.3ETropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0014.4N 130.0ETropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0014.7N 129.0ETropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0015.0N 128.2ETropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0015.4N 126.4E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0015.7N 124.4E50 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0016.0N 123.2E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0016.8N 122.1E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0017.5N 121.5E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0017.7N 120.8E70 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0018.0N 120.0E75 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0018.2N 119.2E80 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0018.2N 118.5E85 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0018.3N 118.0E90 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0018.7N 117.4E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0019.2N 117.1E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0019.8N 117.0E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0020.1N 116.7E80 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0020.6N 116.3E70 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0021.1N 115.6E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0021.3N 115.0E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0021.7N 114.3E55 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0021.3N 112.8ETropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0021.2N 111.9ETropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0021.1N 110.9ETropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0020.9N 109.7ETropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0020.5N 108.4ETropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0020.2N 107.2ETropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0020.2N 106.0ETropical 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.