1950 Pacific typhoon season

1950 Pacific typhoon season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formedApril 12, 1950
Last system dissipatedJanuary 1, 1951
Strongest storm
By maximum sustained windsDoris
 • Maximum winds240 km/h (150 mph)
(1-minute sustained)
 • Lowest pressure922 hPa (mbar)
By central pressureClara
 • Maximum winds230 km/h (145 mph)
(1-minute sustained)
 • Lowest pressure899 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms18
Typhoons12
Super typhoons1 (unofficial)
Total fatalities544 total
Total damageUnknown
Related articles
Pacific typhoon seasons
1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952

The 1950 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1950, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1950 Pacific hurricane season. This would be the first season that Fleet Weather Center in Guam, predecessor agency to Joint Typhoon Warning Center, would take most of the responsibility in the basin, including naming the storms.[1] Before this season, the storms are identified and named by the United States Armed Services, and these names are taken from the list that USAS publicly adopted before the 1945 season started.[2][3]

  1. ^ Joint Typhoon Warning Center 50th Anniversary May 1959 – May 2009. April 29, 2009. Archived from the original on July 17, 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
  2. ^ Landsea, Christopher W; Dorst, Neal M (June 1, 2014). "Subject: Tropical Cyclone Names: B1) How are tropical cyclones named?". Tropical Cyclone Frequently Asked Question. United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division. Archived from the original on December 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Cry, George (July 1958). Bristow, Gerald C (ed.). "Naming hurricanes and typhoons". Mariners Weather Log. 2 (4): 109. hdl:2027/uc1.b3876059. ISSN 0025-3367. OCLC 648466886.

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