The 1990 season

Typhoon Becky (1990)

Typhoon Becky reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 20, 1990 and August 30, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Becky, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1990 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 20, 1990 to August 30, 1990
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.2
Identifier
WP161990

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 20, 06:0013.4N 140.7E10 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 12:0013.9N 139.2E10 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 18:0014.8N 138.0E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 00:0015.5N 137.1E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 06:0016.0N 136.0E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 12:0016.0N 135.2E10 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 18:0016.0N 134.5E10 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 00:0016.0N 133.7E10 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 06:0016.0N 133.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 12:0016.1N 132.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 18:0016.4N 131.7E20 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 00:0016.6N 131.1E20 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 06:0016.9N 130.4E20 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 12:0017.1N 129.9E25 ktNot reported
Aug 23, 18:0017.4N 129.6E25 ktNot reported
Aug 24, 00:0017.6N 129.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0017.7N 129.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0017.9N 129.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0018.2N 128.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0018.7N 128.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0019.2N 127.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0019.7N 125.8E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0019.5N 124.2E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0019.1N 123.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0018.6N 122.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0018.1N 120.9E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0017.9N 119.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0017.8N 118.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0017.7N 117.7E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0017.7N 116.4E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0017.7N 115.1E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0017.7N 113.8E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0017.7N 112.5E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0017.7N 111.3E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0017.7N 110.3E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0017.8N 109.0E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0017.7N 107.6E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0017.7N 106.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0017.7N 104.6E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0017.8N 102.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0018.2N 101.1E40 kt998 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1990

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.