The 1990 season

Typhoon Yancy (1990)

Typhoon Yancy reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between August 9, 1990 and August 23, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb, and made landfall. It killed 216 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Yancy, 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 9, 1990 to August 23, 1990
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.7
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
WP131990

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

216 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 06:007.0N 162.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 12:007.0N 161.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 9, 18:007.2N 160.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 00:007.6N 159.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 06:008.1N 158.1E15 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 12:008.5N 157.4E20 ktNot reported
Aug 10, 18:009.0N 156.6E20 ktNot reported
Aug 11, 00:009.4N 155.8E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Aug 11, 06:009.8N 154.8E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Aug 11, 12:0010.4N 153.7E20 kt1006 mbMixed
Aug 11, 18:0011.3N 152.5E20 kt1002 mbMixed
Aug 12, 00:0012.2N 151.4E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0013.5N 150.9E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0014.6N 150.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0015.6N 149.5E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0016.5N 148.7E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0017.2N 147.4E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0017.7N 146.0E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0018.3N 144.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0018.6N 142.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0018.7N 140.6E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0018.9N 138.7E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0018.8N 137.0E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0018.6N 135.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0018.4N 134.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0018.6N 132.9E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0018.8N 132.1E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0019.1N 131.2E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0019.4N 130.1E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0019.6N 129.0E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0019.9N 128.1E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0020.3N 127.4E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0020.9N 126.8E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0021.4N 126.1E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0021.7N 125.2E85 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0021.8N 124.7E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0022.2N 124.4E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0022.9N 124.1E90 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0023.8N 123.7E90 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0024.5N 122.8E90 kt950 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0025.0N 121.5E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0025.1N 120.8E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0025.3N 120.2E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0025.4N 119.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0025.4N 119.4E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0025.4N 119.2E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0025.4N 119.0E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0025.4N 118.7E35 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0025.4N 118.3E30 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0025.4N 118.0E25 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0025.4N 117.6E20 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0025.4N 117.3E20 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0025.3N 116.9E15 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0025.3N 116.5E15 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0024.5N 117.1E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0024.9N 116.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0025.1N 116.1E1000 mbMixed

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.