The 1988 season

Typhoon Warren (1988)

Typhoon Warren reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between July 11, 1988 and July 20, 1988, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Warren. 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 11, 1988 to July 20, 1988
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.8
Identifier
WP061988

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 11, 00:008.8N 148.8E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:009.0N 148.2E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:009.4N 147.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:009.7N 147.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0010.1N 146.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0010.8N 146.2E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0011.5N 145.8E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0012.1N 145.3E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0012.3N 144.7E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0012.4N 143.8E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0012.4N 142.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0012.5N 142.0E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0012.5N 141.2E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0012.7N 140.4E55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0012.7N 139.6E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0012.8N 138.8E65 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0012.8N 138.0E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0013.0N 137.3E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0013.3N 136.2E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0013.6N 134.9E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0014.2N 133.5E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0014.8N 131.9E95 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0015.2N 130.2E100 kt955 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0015.9N 128.5E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0016.5N 127.0E115 kt945 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0016.9N 125.4E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0017.8N 124.0E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0018.4N 122.6E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0018.8N 121.6E95 kt955 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0019.3N 120.5E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0020.0N 119.5E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0020.8N 118.1E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0021.7N 117.0E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0022.7N 116.3E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0023.5N 115.5E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0024.4N 114.4E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0025.0N 113.0E998 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1988

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.