The 1990 season

Typhoon Ed (1990)

Typhoon Ed reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 7, 1990 and September 20, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Ed, 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
September 7, 1990 to September 20, 1990
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.0
Identifier
WP191990

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 7, 00:0013.2N 157.2E15 ktNot reported
Sep 7, 06:0013.3N 156.1E15 ktNot reported
Sep 7, 12:0013.7N 155.0E15 ktNot reported
Sep 7, 18:0014.1N 153.9E15 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 00:0014.7N 153.0E20 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 06:0015.2N 152.0E20 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 12:0015.8N 151.0E20 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 18:0016.6N 150.2E20 ktNot reported
Sep 9, 00:0017.5N 149.5E25 ktNot reported
Sep 9, 06:0018.2N 149.1E25 ktNot reported
Sep 9, 12:0018.8N 148.6E25 ktNot reported
Sep 9, 18:0019.2N 147.9E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 10, 00:0019.4N 147.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0019.5N 146.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0019.6N 145.1E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0019.7N 143.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0019.7N 142.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0019.7N 140.8E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0019.8N 139.3E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0019.9N 138.1E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0019.9N 136.8E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0019.9N 135.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0019.9N 134.2E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0019.9N 132.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0020.0N 131.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0020.0N 129.8E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0020.0N 128.2E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0020.0N 126.6E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0019.8N 125.0E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0019.4N 123.5E65 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0019.0N 121.9E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0018.6N 120.5E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0018.2N 119.3E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0017.8N 118.1E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0017.4N 116.9E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0017.1N 115.9E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0016.7N 114.9E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0016.4N 114.2E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0016.1N 113.5E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0016.0N 113.0E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0015.9N 112.5E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0015.9N 111.9E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0015.9N 111.2E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0015.9N 110.5E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0016.2N 109.7E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0016.4N 108.9E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0016.7N 108.2E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0016.9N 107.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0017.1N 107.2E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0017.5N 106.5E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0018.0N 105.8E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0018.7N 105.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0019.4N 105.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0020.1N 104.7E25 kt1004 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.