The 1990 season

Typhoon Zola (1990)

Typhoon Zola reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 15, 1990 and August 23, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall. It killed 6 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Zola, 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 15, 1990 to August 23, 1990
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.7
Fastest the center moved
32 kt (37 mph)
Identifier
WP141990

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

6 deaths, 24 injuredno 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 15, 12:0014.6N 141.1E25 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 18:0014.3N 142.0E20 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 00:0014.6N 142.8E20 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 06:0015.1N 143.2E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0015.5N 143.4E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0015.8N 143.6E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0016.4N 143.9E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0017.2N 144.2E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0018.0N 144.5E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0018.6N 144.8E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0019.1N 145.1E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0019.6N 145.4E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0020.0N 145.7E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0020.5N 145.8E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0021.2N 145.2E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0021.9N 144.3E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0022.4N 143.3E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0022.8N 142.5E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0023.2N 141.7E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0023.8N 140.6E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0024.7N 139.3E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0025.7N 137.8E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0026.9N 136.2E90 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0028.3N 134.8E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0029.6N 133.6E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0031.1N 132.6E95 kt965 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0032.9N 132.3E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0035.0N 132.6E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0037.7N 133.6E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0040.3N 136.2E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0041.5N 140.4E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0042.6N 144.8E45 kt992 mbExtratropical

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.