The 1954 season

Typhoon Grace (1954)

Typhoon Grace reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 11, 1954 and August 23, 1954, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Grace, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1954 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 11, 1954 to August 23, 1954
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
15.5
Identifier
WP041954

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 11, 06:0022.4N 138.3ETropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0022.7N 137.4ETropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0020.0N 136.1E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0020.5N 135.0E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0021.0N 134.0E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0022.0N 133.3E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0022.8N 132.7E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0023.7N 131.9E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0023.8N 131.6E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0024.0N 130.8E70 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0024.4N 129.0E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0024.4N 128.9E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0024.5N 128.6E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0024.8N 128.2E85 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0025.3N 128.2E85 kt945 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0025.6N 128.1E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0026.0N 127.9E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0026.5N 127.7E90 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0027.2N 127.4E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0027.7N 127.4E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0028.1N 127.6E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0028.6N 127.6E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0028.9N 127.9E80 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0029.2N 128.1E85 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0030.3N 129.0E90 kt940 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0031.6N 129.9E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0032.3N 130.5E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0033.2N 131.4E65 kt964 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0033.8N 132.2E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0034.2N 133.4E50 kt974 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0034.8N 134.5E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0035.4N 135.6E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0035.8N 136.9E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0035.6N 139.5E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0036.6N 141.1E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0038.1N 142.3E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0038.7N 144.4E1000 mbMixed
Aug 20, 12:0039.3N 146.5E1002 mbMixed
Aug 20, 18:0039.8N 149.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 00:0040.0N 152.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 06:0040.2N 155.6E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 12:0040.3N 158.6E1008 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 18:0040.3N 161.4E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 00:0040.1N 164.0E1005 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 06:0040.1N 167.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 12:0040.3N 170.6E998 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 18:0040.8N 174.8E998 mbExtratropical
Aug 23, 00:0041.3N 179.7E994 mbExtratropical
Aug 23, 06:0044.0N 182.8EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1954

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.