1949 Pacific typhoon season
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| First storm formed: | January 13, 1949 | |
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| Last storm dissipated: | December 13, 1949 | |
| Strongest storm: | Typhoon #20 - 145 mph | |
| Total storms: | 22 | |
| Typhoons: | 14 | |
| Super typhoons: | 0 | |
| Total fatalities: | 3,000+ | |
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The 1949 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1949, 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 1949 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the North Pacific Typhoon Warning Service.
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[edit] Storms
[edit] Typhoon Gloria
[edit] Typhoon Judith
[edit] Typhoon Kitty
Typhoon Kitty struck the Tokyo/Yokohama area August 31 through September 1, 1949. From reconnaissance reports the maximum sustained winds were near 110 knots 12 hours prior to landfall, but had fallen to minimum typhoon strength by the time it reached Honshu. Never-the-less, the death toll reached 123 due to rainfall induced flooding and landslides (NY Times, 9/3/1949), and caused about 15 billion yen in damages. As its center passed near Tokyo, the JMA's Central Meteorological Office was able to launch eight rawindsondes in the typhoon environment. Researcher Dr. Hidedoshi Arakawa was able to analyize these soundings to make a vertical analysis of the storm. See Arakawa, H. 1950 : "Vertical Structure of a Mature Typhoon", Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 78 No. 11, Nov. 1950, p.197-200.
[edit] Typhoon of December 1949
A typhoon off the coast of Korea struck a fishing fleet. Several thousand fisherman were reported dead.
[edit] 1949 Storm Names
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