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

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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

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. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see

1950 Pacific hurricane season The 1950 Pacific hurricane season was notable for one of the storms being the third-wettest tropical cyclone in United States history. Seven known tropical cyclones occurred during the season, the earliest of which formed on June 14 and the latest ...

. This would be the first season that

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, predecessor agency to

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, would take most of the responsibility in the basin, including naming the storms. Before this season, the storms are identified and named by the

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, and these names are taken from the list that USAS publicly adopted before the 1945 season started.

Systems

Severe Tropical Storm One

Typhoon Doris

Doris was an intense category 4 super Typhoon that mostly remained out to sea. It formed on May 6, peaked as a strong category 4, and then dissipated on May 14. Doris reached a very low pressure of 922 mbar.

Tropical Storm 02W

This storm impacted

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Typhoon Elsie

CMA Severe Tropical Storm Six

Typhoon Flossie

Typhoon Grace

Typhoon Grace impacted Korea and Japan.

Tropical Storm Helene

This storm stalled near Japan and accelerated towards China.

Tropical Storm Thirteen

Tropical Storm Fifteen

Tropical Storm Sixteen

This storm was the third and last storm consecutively to make landfall on Japan.

Typhoon Ida

Tropical Depression Twenty

This storm impacted Japan and South Korea. This storm also occurred in the

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, where Korean soldiers were battling in South Korea during the storm's impact on land.

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-one

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-one was a severe tropical storm that remained in open waters.

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-three

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-Three tracked through Japan.

Typhoon Jane

Typhoon Jane struck the island of Shikoku in Japan on 3 September. Resulting flooding and landslides killed 539 people

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. 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

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area. Jane crossed Kyoto Prefecture and weakened to a tropical storm and crossed the

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and reentered the

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and passed just west of

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. The storm struck eastern

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and crossed the Tsugaru Straits and made a final landfall on the south coast of

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. Jane crossed Hokkaido and dissipated south of the

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Typhoon Kezia

On September 13 Typhoon Kezia hit part of the fleet off

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belonging to

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were grounded at

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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

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the building was damaged, the

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was lost.

Severe Tropical Storm Twenty-six

This storm tracked through Vietnam and Laos.

Tropical Storm Lucretia-Nancy

Typhoon Missatha

Typhoon Missatha paralleled Japan.

Typhoon Ossia

Typhoon Ossia impacted the Philippines.

Typhoon Petie

Severe Tropical Storm Thirty-five

Typhoon Ruby

Typhoon Billie

Typhoon Clara

Tropical Storm Delilah

This Tropical Storm affected the Philippines.

Severe Tropical Storm Ellen

Ellen remained at sea, without impacting land.

Typhoon Fran

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Storm names

20 Names were used during the season, the first being Doris and the last was Fran

Names Decommissioned

After the season 8 names were decommissioned by the

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, namely Delilah, Helene, Jane, Kezia, Lucretia, Missatha, Ossia, and Petie. They are subsequently replaced with Dot, Helen, June, Kathy, Lorna, Marie, Olga, and Pamela.

References

External links

Unisys season tracks

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