The 1971 season

Typhoon Faye:Gloria (1971)

Typhoon Faye:Gloria reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between October 2, 1971 and October 16, 1971, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Faye:Gloria, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1971 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 2, 1971 to October 16, 1971
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.5
Identifier
WP311971

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 2, 00:0010.4N 175.7ETropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0010.6N 173.7ETropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0010.8N 171.8ETropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0011.0N 170.2ETropical storm
Oct 3, 00:0011.2N 168.7ETropical storm
Oct 3, 06:0011.3N 167.0ETropical storm
Oct 3, 12:0011.5N 165.1ETropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0011.7N 163.1ETropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0011.9N 161.2ETropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0012.2N 159.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0012.6N 158.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0012.8N 156.4E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0013.2N 154.3E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0013.6N 152.6E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0014.0N 151.0E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0014.4N 149.6E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0014.9N 147.6E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0015.6N 144.9E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0015.9N 142.6E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 18:0016.0N 140.6E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0016.0N 138.8E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0016.0N 137.1E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0015.9N 135.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0015.6N 133.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0015.1N 132.4E998 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0014.5N 131.0E998 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0014.0N 129.9E996 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0013.6N 128.8E996 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:0013.5N 127.9E994 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0013.8N 127.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0014.5N 126.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0015.3N 125.6E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0016.1N 124.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0016.9N 123.7E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0017.5N 122.4E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0018.0N 121.0E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0016.6N 119.5E48 kt985 mbMixed
Oct 11, 06:0014.9N 118.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0014.5N 119.3E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0014.2N 119.6E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0014.1N 120.0E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0013.9N 120.7E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0014.1N 121.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0014.7N 122.6E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0015.7N 123.6E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0016.5N 124.2E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0017.6N 124.7E992 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0018.8N 125.8E992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0020.0N 127.0E992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0020.8N 128.0E996 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0021.5N 128.8E998 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0022.3N 129.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0023.0N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0023.7N 133.5E1010 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0024.5N 135.0E1014 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0025.3N 135.8E1012 mbExtratropical
Oct 16, 00:0026.0N 138.9E1014 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1971

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.