The 1974 season

Tropical Storm Wendy (1974)

Tropical Storm Wendy peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between September 19, 1974 and October 1, 1974, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Wendy, 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
September 19, 1974 to October 1, 1974
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.7
Identifier
WP241974

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
Sep 19, 06:0016.2N 146.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0016.1N 146.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0016.0N 145.5E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0016.0N 144.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0016.0N 143.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0016.0N 142.2E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0016.0N 141.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0015.9N 140.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0015.5N 139.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0015.3N 139.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0015.0N 138.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0015.0N 137.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0015.0N 135.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0015.0N 133.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0015.0N 131.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0015.0N 129.5E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 23, 06:0015.5N 128.4E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 23, 12:0016.0N 127.3E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Sep 23, 18:0016.5N 126.1E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 24, 00:0017.1N 125.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0017.7N 124.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0018.1N 123.2E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0018.3N 122.4E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0018.6N 121.6E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0019.0N 121.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0019.2N 121.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0019.4N 120.9E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0019.6N 120.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0019.9N 120.7E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0020.3N 120.7E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0020.8N 120.6E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0021.2N 120.6E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0021.8N 121.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0022.5N 121.6E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0023.4N 122.2E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0024.1N 122.4E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0024.8N 122.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0025.1N 121.7E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0025.1N 121.3E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0025.2N 121.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0025.3N 120.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0025.4N 120.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0025.7N 120.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0026.0N 120.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0026.3N 121.5E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0026.6N 122.0E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0027.2N 122.9E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0027.6N 124.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0028.2N 126.7E1008 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.