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1950 Pacific typhoon season

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Field	Value
Basin	WPac
Year	1950
Track	1950 Pacific typhoon season summary.png
First storm formed	April 12, 1950
Last storm dissipated	January 1, 1951
Strongest storm by winds name	Doris
Strongest storm by winds pressure	922
Strongest storm by winds winds	130
Strongest storm by pressure name	Clara
Strongest storm by pressure pressure	899
Strongest storm by pressure winds	125
Average wind speed	1
Total storms	18
Total hurricanes	12
Total intense	1 (unofficial)
Fatalities	544 total
five seasons	[1948](1948-pacific-typhoon-season), [1949](1949-pacific-typhoon-season), 1950, [1951](1951-pacific-typhoon-season), [1952](1952-pacific-typhoon-season)
Atlantic season	1950 Atlantic hurricane season
East Pacific season	1950 Pacific hurricane season
North Indian season	1950 North Indian Ocean cyclone season

| Strongest storm by winds name = Doris | Strongest storm by winds pressure = 922 | Strongest storm by winds winds = 130 | Strongest storm by pressure name = Clara | Strongest storm by pressure pressure = 899 | Strongest storm by pressure winds = 125 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. 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.

Summary

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Systems

Severe Tropical Storm One

|10-min winds=60

Super Typhoon Doris

|1-min winds=130

Tropical Storm 02W

|1-min winds=35

Typhoon Elsie

|1-min winds=75

CMA Severe Tropical Storm Six

|10-min winds=50

Tropical Storm Flossie

|1-min winds=60

Typhoon Grace

|1-min winds=70

Tropical Storm Helene

|1-min winds=50

CMA Tropical Storm Thirteen

|10-min winds=40

CMA Tropical Storm Fifteen

|10-min winds=40

JMA Tropical Storm Sixteen

|10-min winds=40

Typhoon Ida

|1-min winds=75

JMA Severe Tropical Storm Twenty

|10-min winds=50

CMA Tropical Storm Twenty-one

|10-min winds=60

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-three

|10-min winds=60

Typhoon Jane

|1-min winds=100 Main article: Typhoon Jane

Typhoon Jane struck the island of Shikoku in Japan on 3 September. Resulting flooding and landslides killed 539 people.https://web.archive.org/web/20081007035330/http://web.adrc.or.jp/hanshin/hakusho/English/chapter2/t2-1.htm

In late August, a depression formed and quickly intensified into a tropical storm and was given the name Jane. The storm drifted west northwestward and intensified into a typhoon. Jane gradually curved to the north and intensified to a category 2 typhoon. Jane shortly reached category 3 status and peak intensity at 185 km/h (115 mph). The typhoon accelerated to the north-northeast and weakened to a category 2 storm and made landfall in the modern-day Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto area. Jane crossed Kyoto Prefecture and weakened to a tropical storm and crossed the Noto Peninsula and reentered the Sea of Japan and passed just west of Sado Island. The storm struck eastern Aomori Prefecture and crossed the Tsugaru Straits and made a final landfall on the south coast of Hokkaido Prefecture. Jane crossed Hokkaido and dissipated south of the Kuril Islands.

Typhoon Kezia

Main article: Typhoon Kezia

|1-min winds=100

On September 13 Typhoon Kezia hit part of the fleet off Kyushu.

P-51 Mustangs belonging to No. 77 Squadron RAAF were grounded at Iwakuni because of the typhoon on September 13 and 14.

There was great damage in western Japan. In Japan, 30 dead, 19 missing people, 35 injured. The total damage and breakage of the house is 4,836. There are 121,1924 inundated houses. In the Itsukushima Shrine the building was damaged, the Kintai Bridge was lost.

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-six

|10-min winds=50

Tropical Storm Lucretia-Nancy

|1-min winds=55

Typhoon Missatha

|1-min winds=70

Typhoon Ossia

|1-min winds=100

Typhoon Petie

|1-min winds=90

Severe Tropical Storm Thirty-five

|10-min winds=50

Typhoon Ruby-Anita

|1-min winds=100

Typhoon Billie

|1-min winds=80

Typhoon Clara

|1-min winds=125

Tropical Storm Delilah

|1-min winds=60

Tropical Storm Ellen

|1-min winds=60|Image=Tropical Storm Ellen weather map, December 13, 1950.jpg}} Ellen remained at sea, without impacting land.

Typhoon Fran

|1-min winds=80

Typhoon Fran was a late season storm that struck the northern Philippines killing 5 people.

Storm names

The names came from a series of four rotating lists. Names were used one after the other without regard to year, and when the bottom of one list was reached, the next named storm received the name at the top of the next list. The names Elsie, Flossie, Jane, Kezia, Lucretia, Missatha, Ossia, Petie, Ruby, Salome, Anita, Billie, Clara, Delilah, Ellen, and Fran were used for the first time this season.

Names decommissioned

For unknown reasons, the names Helene, Jane, Kezia, Lucretia, Missatha, Ossia, Petie, Salome, and Delilah were replaced with Helen, June, Kathy, Lorna, Marie, Olga, Pamela, Sally, and Dot when this list was reused for the 1953, 1954, and 1955 seasons respectively.

References

(April 29, 2009). "Joint Typhoon Warning Center 50th Anniversary May 1959 – May 2009".
Landsea, Christopher W. (June 1, 2014). "Tropical Cyclone Frequently Asked Question". United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division.
Cry, George. (July 1958). "Naming hurricanes and typhoons". Mariners Weather Log.
"RAAF Form A.50 - No. 77 Squadron, RAAF - September 1950". AviationHeritage.org.
(2012-09-21). "錦帯橋の歴史". 岩国市観光振興課.
[http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/ Pagasa - Dost - Dost Service Institutes]

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