The 1962 season

Tropical Storm Nadine (1962)

Tropical Storm Nadine peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between December 5, 1962 and December 11, 1962, with a lowest pressure of 974 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nadine, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1962 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
December 5, 1962 to December 11, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
974 mb (28.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 997 km (620 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Identifier
WP301962

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
Dec 5, 18:007.0N 140.5E1002 mbMixed
Dec 6, 00:008.0N 141.0E1002 mbMixed
Dec 6, 06:009.0N 141.8E1002 mbMixed
Dec 6, 12:0010.4N 144.2E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Dec 6, 18:0011.3N 143.6E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 00:0012.0N 143.2E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 06:0012.8N 142.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 12:0013.4N 142.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 18:0013.4N 143.4E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 00:0013.4N 144.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 06:0013.6N 144.9E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 12:0014.4N 146.0E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 18:0015.9N 147.4E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 00:0017.7N 148.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 06:0019.6N 150.1E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 12:0021.2N 152.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 18:0023.1N 154.6E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 00:0026.5N 157.9E35 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 06:0030.5N 161.2E30 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 12:0031.5N 164.3E980 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 18:0032.2N 167.5E975 mbTropical storm
Dec 11, 00:0033.5N 171.0E974 mbMixed
Dec 11, 06:0035.0N 174.0E976 mbExtratropical
Dec 11, 12:0035.0N 178.0E976 mbExtratropical
Dec 11, 18:0034.0N 183.0EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1962

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.