The 1974 season

Tropical Storm Faye (1974)

Tropical Storm Faye peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between October 30, 1974 and November 5, 1974, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Faye, 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
October 30, 1974 to November 5, 1974
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
WP301974

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 30, 06:0013.0N 129.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0013.0N 129.1E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0013.0N 128.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0011.5N 129.2E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 31, 06:0011.8N 128.2E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 31, 12:0012.2N 127.1E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Oct 31, 18:0012.5N 126.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0012.8N 124.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0013.1N 123.8E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0013.3N 122.3E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0013.5N 120.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0013.8N 119.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0014.1N 117.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0014.4N 116.6E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0014.6N 115.4E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0014.8N 114.3E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0015.0N 113.2E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0015.0N 112.1E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0015.0N 111.0E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0014.9N 109.9E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0015.0N 108.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0015.0N 107.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0015.0N 106.0E20 kt1000 mbMixed
Nov 5, 00:0015.0N 104.0E15 kt1004 mbMixed
Nov 5, 06:0015.0N 102.0E15 kt1004 mbMixed
Nov 5, 12:0015.0N 100.2E15 kt1006 mbMixed
Nov 5, 18:0015.6N 100.0EMixed

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.