The 1974 season

Typhoon Dinah (1974)

Typhoon Dinah reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between June 5, 1974 and June 14, 1974, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Dinah, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1974 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 5, 1974 to June 14, 1974
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.8
Identifier
WP061974

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 5, 06:006.0N 144.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 12:008.0N 142.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 18:009.5N 140.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 00:0010.2N 139.8E1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 06:0010.4N 138.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 12:0010.8N 137.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 6, 18:0011.3N 136.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 00:0012.0N 135.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 06:0012.5N 133.8E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 12:0012.6N 132.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 7, 18:0012.7N 130.4E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 00:0012.9N 128.7E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 06:0013.2N 127.6E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 12:0013.6N 126.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 8, 18:0014.1N 125.9E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0014.3N 125.1E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0014.3N 124.3E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0014.6N 123.5E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0015.0N 122.9E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0015.4N 122.3E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0016.2N 121.4E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0016.5N 119.8E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0016.6N 118.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0016.5N 117.7E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0016.5N 116.9E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0016.5N 115.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0016.8N 114.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0017.4N 114.2E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0018.1N 113.6E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0018.8N 112.7E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0019.5N 111.6E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0019.8N 110.4E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0020.0N 109.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0020.0N 107.8E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0020.0N 106.7E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0020.1N 105.4E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0020.3N 104.8E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 12:0020.6N 103.9E20 kt994 mbMixed
Jun 14, 18:0021.0N 103.0E20 kt996 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1974

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.