The 1971 season

Typhoon Freda (1971)

Typhoon Freda reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between June 9, 1971 and June 19, 1971, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Freda, 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
June 9, 1971 to June 19, 1971
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.3
Identifier
WP101971

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
Jun 9, 00:0010.0N 135.0E1012 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0010.0N 134.3E1009 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0010.0N 133.6E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0010.0N 133.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:009.6N 132.6E1007 mbMixed
Jun 10, 06:009.2N 132.0E1006 mbMixed
Jun 10, 12:009.4N 131.4E1006 mbMixed
Jun 10, 18:009.6N 130.6E1006 mbMixed
Jun 11, 00:009.8N 130.1E1006 mbMixed
Jun 11, 06:0010.1N 129.8E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0010.7N 129.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0011.3N 129.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0011.7N 129.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0012.2N 128.9E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0012.6N 128.5E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0012.8N 128.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0013.2N 128.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0013.7N 128.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0014.2N 128.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0014.6N 127.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0015.0N 126.9E1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0015.5N 126.4E1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 12:0015.9N 125.6E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 18:0016.3N 124.7E55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0016.7N 123.8E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0017.1N 122.8E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 12:0017.5N 121.8E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0017.8N 121.0E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0018.5N 119.7E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0019.0N 118.3E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0019.6N 117.1E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0020.0N 116.1E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0020.4N 115.6E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0020.8N 115.1E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0021.5N 114.4E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0022.2N 113.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0023.2N 113.3E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0023.8N 112.7E992 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0025.1N 112.5E994 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0026.1N 112.6E996 mbMixed
Jun 19, 00:0027.5N 113.7E998 mbMixed
Jun 19, 06:0028.7N 115.1E1000 mbMixed
Jun 19, 12:0029.6N 116.7E1001 mbMixed

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.