The 1954 season

Super Typhoon June (1954)

Super Typhoon June reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 4, 1954 and September 16, 1954, with a lowest pressure of 905 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon June, 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
September 4, 1954 to September 16, 1954
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
905 mb (26.72 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
32.8
Identifier
WP101954

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, 06:0018.5N 152.2E50 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0018.8N 151.8E55 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0019.1N 151.3E55 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0019.5N 150.8E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0019.7N 150.2E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0019.8N 149.7E65 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0020.0N 148.8E75 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0020.0N 148.0E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0019.9N 147.1E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0019.6N 146.2E85 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0019.4N 145.3E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0019.4N 144.3E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0019.9N 143.7E130 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0020.2N 142.5E120 kt930 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0020.3N 141.8E110 kt920 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0020.5N 141.2E100 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0020.7N 140.3E90 kt905 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0020.9N 139.7E105 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0021.0N 139.1E120 kt910 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0021.0N 138.5E120 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0021.3N 137.8E110 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0021.7N 137.3E100 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0022.3N 137.0E100 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0022.8N 136.5E100 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0022.9N 136.1E80 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0022.9N 135.6E75 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0023.5N 135.1E75 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0023.8N 134.8E75 kt925 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0024.5N 134.4E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0025.0N 133.8E75 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0025.3N 133.0E80 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0026.1N 132.5E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0027.3N 132.1E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0027.7N 131.2E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0028.5N 130.8E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0029.5N 131.0E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0031.5N 130.8E80 kt958 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0033.1N 131.2E80 kt964 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0035.8N 131.9E55 kt966 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0038.0N 131.2E55 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0040.5N 131.5E55 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0043.0N 131.0E50 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0044.0N 130.5E45 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0045.0N 130.3E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0045.5N 130.0E35 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0046.0N 129.0E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0048.3N 129.4E991 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0049.1N 130.2E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 16, 06:0050.8N 131.0E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 16, 12:0051.6N 130.9E992 mbExtratropical
Sep 16, 18:0051.7N 132.5EExtratropical

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.