Super Typhoon Georgia (1970)

Super Typhoon Georgia reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 7, 1970 and September 16, 1970, with a lowest pressure of 905 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Georgia, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1970 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 7, 1970 to September 16, 1970
Peak strength: Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure: 905 mb (26.72 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 19.0
Identifier: WP141970

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Sep 7, 00:00	15.0N 140.0E			Disturbance
Sep 7, 06:00	14.8N 139.1E			Disturbance
Sep 7, 12:00	14.5N 138.0E			Tropical storm
Sep 7, 18:00	14.5N 137.0E		1006 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 8, 00:00	14.6N 136.1E	40 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 8, 06:00	14.6N 134.8E	50 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 8, 12:00	14.6N 133.6E	60 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 8, 18:00	14.7N 132.3E	65 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 9, 00:00	14.5N 131.2E	75 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 9, 06:00	14.4N 130.2E	85 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 9, 12:00	14.5N 129.0E	95 kt	955 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 9, 18:00	14.7N 127.7E	105 kt	945 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 10, 00:00	14.9N 126.4E	115 kt	930 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 10, 06:00	15.2N 125.4E	125 kt	920 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 10, 12:00	15.5N 124.3E	130 kt	915 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 10, 18:00	15.8N 123.2E	135 kt	905 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 00:00	16.0N 122.1E	140 kt	920 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 06:00	16.6N 120.9E	85 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 12:00	17.0N 119.8E	75 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 18:00	17.4N 118.8E	70 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 00:00	17.8N 118.1E	65 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 06:00	18.3N 117.3E	75 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 12:00	18.7N 116.8E	75 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 18:00	19.1N 116.4E	75 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 13, 00:00	19.6N 116.0E	75 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 13, 06:00	20.3N 115.7E	70 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 13, 12:00	21.2N 115.4E	65 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 13, 18:00	22.2N 115.2E	60 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 14, 00:00	23.2N 115.2E	55 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 14, 06:00	24.1N 115.2E	40 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 14, 12:00	24.4N 115.1E		996 mb	Mixed
Sep 14, 18:00	25.3N 115.1E		1002 mb	Mixed
Sep 15, 00:00	26.3N 115.0E		1005 mb	Mixed
Sep 15, 06:00	27.4N 115.1E		1005 mb	Mixed
Sep 15, 12:00	28.3N 115.2E		1006 mb	Mixed
Sep 15, 18:00	30.0N 115.9E		1007 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 16, 00:00	31.3N 116.4E		1008 mb	Tropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1970

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.