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1948 Pacific typhoon season

1948 Pacific typhoon season
Season summary map
Seasonal boundaries
First system formed	January 11, 1948
Last system dissipated	December 16, 1948
Strongest storm
Name	Libby
• Maximum winds	230 km/h (145 mph) (1-minute sustained)
• Lowest pressure	924 hPa (mbar)
Seasonal statistics
Total storms	26
Typhoons	15
Super typhoons	1 (unofficial)
Total fatalities	Unknown
Total damage	Unknown
Related articles
1948 Atlantic hurricane season 1942–48 Pacific hurricane seasons 1940s North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
Pacific typhoon seasons 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950

The 1948 Pacific typhoon season was an average season. It had no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1948, 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 1948 Pacific hurricane season. At the time, tropical storms that formed within this region of the western Pacific were 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.^[1][2]

Season summary[edit]

Storms[edit]

Typhoon Karen[edit]

Typhoon Karen, one of the earliest recorded super typhoons, developed on January 11, well west of the Philippines. It curved westward while slowly intensifying. After a prolonged period of slow intensification, the tropical cyclone began to rapidly strengthen. It became a super typhoon on January 16. Shortly after, it weakened and dissipated on January 19.

It struck Yap on January 14, damaging and destroying establishments and houses on the island.^[3] It also wrecked the roofs of some U.S. warehouses and buildings, and downed power lines.^[3] A food warehouse were washed out; however, some food supplies survived.^[3]

After the typhoon, the navy transported some relief supplies to the populated island.^[3] No deaths were reported.^[3]

Typhoon Lana[edit]

Typhoon Lana, the second system of the season, formed on May 16, west of the Philippines. It moved to the north-northeast while intensifying, reaching its peak intensity somewhere on May 18 and 19. It then weakened, until it was last noted on May 20 as it merged with a cold front.

Warnings were issued for Yap, Palau, Guam and Ulithi in preparations for the storm.^[4] All ships in these islands were instructed to escape to Sangley Point due to the approaching typhoon.^[5]

A plane in Guam encountered the strength of the typhoon; however, it escaped its fury.^[5] Eighteen individuals were reported dead in Yap when their canoe sank during the storm.^[5] The damage, however, was minimal.^[5]

Typhoon Mabel[edit]

Typhoon Mabel is also known as Hurricane Mabel or Hurricane Dipper. It was the seventeenth depression of the typhoon season, the twelfth typhoon, and the second super typhoon. Mabel was a powerful cyclone that first formed near Hawaii. It then went westward, remaining as a severe tropical storm before entering the warm waters of the West Pacific, where explosive intensification took place, going to a maximum wind speed of 200mph and a minimum pressure of 870 mbar. The storm then severely impacted the Philippines and Japan, becoming the most destructive typhoon to strike the Philippines and Japan.

Typhoon Nadine[edit]

Typhoon Nadine formed as a tropical depression over the Atlantic Ocean on September 11, 2012, and strengthened to a tropical storm the next day. Nadine's status between September 12 and October 1 varied between tropical storm, subtropical storm, and Category 1 hurricane, but the storm persisted. On October 1, 2012, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Nadine was located about 705 miles (1,135 kilometers) west of the Azores, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour.^[6]

Tropical Storm Ophelia[edit]

Ophelia formed on June 10 in the South China Sea. It moved west and struck southern China. It dissipated the next day, without attaining maximum sustained winds any higher than 45 miles per hour (72 km/h).

Typhoon Pearl[edit]

Typhoon Rose[edit]

Typhoon Bertha[edit]

Tropical Storm Chris[edit]

Typhoon Dolores–Eunice[edit]

Tropical Storm Dolores was tracked by the Air Weather Service located on Guam. At one point, a tropical storm was identified and assigned the name Eunice. Post analysis showed that Tropical Storm Dolores was north of the forecast location and was synonymous with the system assigned Eunice.^[7]

Typhoon Flo[edit]

Typhoon Gertrude[edit]

Typhoon Hazel[edit]

Typhoon Ione[edit]

A Tropical Storm formed on September 11 and soon turned toward Japan as it gained strength. Ione soon reached category 4 intensity on September 14. Ione then began to lose strength and became a category 1 on September 16. Then, Ione struck Japan in that day killing 838 people.^[8] Ione further weakened and became a Tropical Storm on the 17th. Ione then dissipated.

Typhoon Jackie[edit]

Typhoon Kit[edit]

Typhoon Libby[edit]

Typhoon Martha[edit]

Typhoon Norma[edit]

Tropical Storm Olga[edit]

Typhoon Pat[edit]

Typhoon Rita[edit]

Typhoon Agnes[edit]

Tropical Storm 24W[edit]

Typhoon Beverly[edit]

Tropical Storm 26W[edit]

Other Systems[edit]

Between 23 July and 4 August, the name Annabell was assigned to a North West Pacific system. The Air Weather Service issued a bulletin issued and tropical cyclone named on what was later determined to be "trough activity"

Storm names[edit]

Tropical storm names were assigned by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center since 1945.

See also[edit]

• 1948 Atlantic hurricane season
• List of Pacific typhoon seasons
• 1900–1950 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone seasons
• 1940s Australian region cyclone seasons
• 1940s South Pacific cyclone seasons

References[edit]

^ "Nadine Persists over the Atlantic Ocean". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2024-06-21. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links[edit]

• Unisys season tracks
• List of DOD publishing organizations and basins covered for the entire 1945-2000 period.