The 1950 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1950)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between June 5, 1950 and June 10, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
June 5, 1950 to June 10, 1950
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
WP021950

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
Jun 5, 00:0020.0N 115.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 06:0020.3N 116.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 12:0020.6N 116.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 5, 18:0020.8N 117.1E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 6, 00:0021.1N 117.4E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 6, 06:0021.3N 117.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 6, 12:0021.6N 118.3E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 6, 18:0021.9N 118.7E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 7, 00:0022.4N 118.8E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 7, 06:0022.7N 118.8E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 7, 12:0023.0N 118.8E35 ktTropical storm
Jun 7, 18:0023.3N 118.8E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0023.7N 118.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0024.3N 119.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0024.6N 120.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0024.8N 121.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0025.2N 126.5ETropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0025.9N 128.3ETropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0026.4N 129.5EExtratropical
Jun 9, 18:0027.2N 130.5EExtratropical
Jun 10, 00:0028.0N 131.7EExtratropical
Jun 10, 06:0029.2N 133.3EExtratropical
Jun 10, 12:0031.5N 135.5EExtratropical

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.