The 1954 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1954)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between October 24, 1954 and October 28, 1954, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
October 24, 1954 to October 28, 1954
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 504 km (313 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP151954

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 24, 00:0017.0N 138.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0018.1N 138.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0019.2N 137.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0020.2N 136.3E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0021.4N 136.1E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0023.0N 136.3E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0024.7N 137.0E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0026.2N 137.6E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0027.7N 138.4E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0029.0N 139.3E25 kt1006 mbMixed
Oct 26, 12:0029.7N 140.2E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Oct 26, 18:0031.9N 148.0E1006 mbMixed
Oct 27, 00:0032.1N 151.8E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 27, 06:0032.3N 155.5E1006 mbExtratropical
Oct 27, 12:0032.5N 158.0E1010 mbExtratropical
Oct 27, 18:0032.7N 160.0E1012 mbExtratropical
Oct 28, 00:0032.8N 162.0E1014 mbExtratropical
Oct 28, 06:0032.9N 164.0E1014 mbExtratropical
Oct 28, 12:0033.0N 166.0E1014 mbExtratropical
Oct 28, 18:0033.0N 167.0E1014 mbExtratropical

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.