The 1954 season

Typhoon Nancy (1954)

Typhoon Nancy reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 30, 1954 and October 13, 1954, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nancy, 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 30, 1954 to October 13, 1954
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
23.3
Identifier
WP131954

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 30, 00:0015.5N 145.9E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0015.6N 145.7E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0015.6N 145.5E65 ktTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0015.6N 145.2E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0015.6N 144.9E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0015.6N 144.7E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0015.5N 144.5E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 1, 18:0015.5N 144.3E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0015.5N 144.0E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0015.5N 143.8E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0015.5N 143.6E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0015.5N 143.3E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0015.5N 143.0E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0015.5N 142.7E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0015.5N 142.5E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0015.5N 142.2E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0015.5N 142.0E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0015.6N 141.6E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0015.6N 141.2E65 ktTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0015.6N 140.5E65 ktMixed
Oct 5, 00:0015.6N 139.9E65 kt1006 mbMixed
Oct 5, 06:0015.6N 137.5E65 kt1000 mbMixed
Oct 5, 12:0015.5N 137.0E65 kt1000 mbMixed
Oct 5, 18:0015.8N 135.3E65 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0016.0N 133.9E70 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0016.3N 132.3E70 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0016.8N 130.8E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0016.8N 129.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0016.7N 127.2E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0017.0N 125.8E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0017.6N 124.3E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0017.4N 122.9E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0017.5N 121.8E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0017.8N 120.4E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0017.5N 119.1E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0017.2N 118.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0017.3N 116.8E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0018.0N 115.8E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0017.6N 114.8E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0017.6N 113.9E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0017.8N 113.4E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0018.2N 112.7E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0018.1N 111.9E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0018.1N 110.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0018.0N 109.7E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0018.0N 108.9E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0018.0N 107.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0018.2N 106.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0018.4N 105.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0018.5N 104.0E65 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0022.0N 103.5E45 ktTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0023.0N 101.5E30 ktTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0024.0N 100.0E20 ktTropical storm

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.