The 1989 season

Typhoon Nancy (1989)

Typhoon Nancy reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 9, 1989 and August 18, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nancy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1989 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
August 9, 1989 to August 18, 1989
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.1
Identifier
WP171989

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
Aug 9, 00:0010.1N 148.9E15 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0012.0N 149.2E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0013.7N 149.5E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0015.5N 150.2E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0017.1N 150.9E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0018.5N 151.7E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0019.7N 152.4E25 ktTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0020.8N 153.3E25 ktTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0021.0N 154.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0020.9N 155.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0020.6N 156.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0020.3N 156.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0020.5N 157.6E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0021.1N 157.9E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0021.7N 157.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0022.5N 157.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0023.4N 157.5E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0024.6N 157.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0026.1N 156.4E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0027.6N 155.2E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0029.2N 154.0E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0030.5N 151.7E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0031.7N 149.9E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0032.9N 148.4E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0034.2N 147.0E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0035.7N 146.2E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0037.3N 145.7E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0038.9N 145.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0040.3N 145.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0041.5N 145.4E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0042.5N 145.6E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0043.6N 146.0E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0044.7N 146.4E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Aug 17, 06:0045.8N 146.8E25 kt1000 mbMixed
Aug 17, 12:0047.0N 147.3E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Aug 17, 18:0048.0N 147.7E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Aug 18, 00:0049.0N 148.0E20 kt1004 mbMixed
Aug 18, 06:0047.5N 148.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 12:0048.0N 149.0E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 18:0048.5N 150.0E1004 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1989

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.