The 1975 season

Typhoon Winnie (1975)

Typhoon Winnie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 8, 1975 and September 12, 1975, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Winnie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1975 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 8, 1975 to September 12, 1975
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 937 km (582 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Identifier
WP121975

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 8, 00:0022.5N 162.3E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0023.2N 163.4E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0024.0N 163.9E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0024.9N 163.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0025.8N 164.0E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0026.9N 164.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0028.0N 163.7E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0029.0N 163.4E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0030.0N 163.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0031.0N 162.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0032.2N 162.6E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0033.3N 162.3E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0034.7N 162.6E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0036.8N 163.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0038.6N 165.2E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0041.2N 166.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0042.0N 169.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0043.5N 172.0E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0046.0N 176.0E40 kt990 mbMixed
Sep 12, 18:0048.2N 180.0E990 mbMixed

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.