The 1975 season

Typhoon Lola (1975)

Typhoon Lola reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between January 19, 1975 and January 28, 1975, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Lola. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
January 19, 1975 to January 28, 1975
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Identifier
WP011975

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
Jan 19, 00:009.0N 140.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:008.7N 139.7E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:008.5N 139.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:008.3N 138.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:008.2N 138.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:008.0N 138.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:007.8N 137.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:007.7N 137.4E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 00:006.5N 137.5E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 06:006.6N 137.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 12:006.7N 136.6E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 18:006.9N 136.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 00:007.1N 135.6E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 06:007.4N 135.2E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 12:007.7N 134.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 22, 18:007.9N 134.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 00:008.1N 134.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 06:008.4N 132.8E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 12:008.6N 131.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 18:008.8N 129.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 00:009.0N 127.9E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 06:009.1N 126.3E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0010.1N 124.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0010.7N 122.7E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0011.3N 120.2E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0011.7N 118.5E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0012.3N 117.0E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0013.0N 115.5E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0013.8N 114.2E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0014.6N 112.8E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0015.4N 112.7E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0016.1N 112.6E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0016.5N 112.4E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0016.9N 112.6E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0016.3N 112.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0015.8N 112.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0015.0N 112.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0014.5N 111.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0013.5N 110.7E25 kt1010 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1975

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.