The 1981 season

Typhoon Ogden (1981)

Typhoon Ogden reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between July 26, 1981 and August 1, 1981, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Ogden. 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
July 26, 1981 to August 1, 1981
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Identifier
WP101981

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
Jul 26, 00:0021.6N 150.4EMixed
Jul 26, 06:0021.8N 150.0E1006 mbMixed
Jul 26, 12:0022.0N 149.6E1004 mbMixed
Jul 26, 18:0022.4N 149.4E1004 mbMixed
Jul 27, 00:0022.5N 150.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0023.1N 149.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0023.7N 148.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0024.1N 147.4E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0024.6N 146.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0025.2N 145.8E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0025.9N 144.7E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0026.6N 143.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0027.3N 141.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0028.1N 140.8E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0028.8N 139.5E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0029.3N 138.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0030.0N 136.8E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0030.8N 135.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0031.2N 132.7E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0031.8N 131.2E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 00:0032.8N 129.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 06:0033.2N 127.9E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0033.8N 126.8E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0034.8N 126.2E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0036.0N 125.8E25 kt996 mbMixed
Aug 1, 06:0037.2N 124.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0038.4N 124.4E1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0039.5N 124.5E1006 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1981

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.