The 1950 season

Typhoon Ruby (1950)

Typhoon Ruby reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between October 27, 1950 and November 4, 1950.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Ruby, 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
October 27, 1950 to November 4, 1950
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 128 km (80 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.6
Identifier
WP141950

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
Oct 27, 12:009.3N 138.0ETropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0010.7N 137.0ETropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0012.4N 136.3ETropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0015.0N 140.2E40 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0015.3N 137.8E60 ktTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0016.0N 135.3E80 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0017.0N 133.9E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0018.1N 133.8E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0019.4N 134.0E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0020.9N 134.7E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0022.0N 135.3E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0023.2N 136.3E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0026.1N 138.3E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0029.0N 139.4E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0032.1N 140.8E100 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0035.0N 142.7E70 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0038.0N 145.1E75 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0040.8N 148.2E60 ktMixed
Nov 1, 00:0043.2N 149.5EExtratropical
Nov 1, 06:0045.2N 151.5EExtratropical
Nov 1, 12:0047.5N 154.5EExtratropical
Nov 1, 18:0049.0N 158.0EExtratropical
Nov 2, 00:0049.4N 160.8EExtratropical
Nov 2, 06:0049.6N 163.0EExtratropical
Nov 2, 12:0050.0N 165.0EExtratropical
Nov 2, 18:0050.8N 166.2EExtratropical
Nov 3, 00:0051.6N 166.6EExtratropical
Nov 3, 06:0051.9N 166.8EExtratropical
Nov 3, 12:0052.5N 167.3EExtratropical
Nov 3, 18:0053.4N 168.0EExtratropical
Nov 4, 00:0053.0N 168.6EExtratropical
Nov 4, 06:0052.5N 169.7EExtratropical
Nov 4, 12:0051.8N 170.5EExtratropical
Nov 4, 18:0050.0N 171.6EExtratropical

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.