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NORTH ATLANTIC · SEASON MAP

1950 Atlantic hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 16 storms · 12 Aug 1950–12 Nov 1950

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY211.3
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1950 Atlantic hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 16 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESCANADAMEXICOCUBABRAZILAFRICAEUROPECHINAJAPANINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanArabian SeaBay of BengalAble: 12 Aug–21 Aug, peak 110 kt, Category 3Baker: 18 Aug–1 Sep, peak 90 kt, Category 2Charlie: 21 Aug–4 Sep, peak 95 kt, Category 2Dog: 30 Aug–11 Sep, peak 125 kt, Category 4Easy: 1 Sep–9 Sep, peak 105 kt, Category 3Fox: 8 Sep–17 Sep, peak 120 kt, Category 4George: 27 Sep–4 Oct, peak 95 kt, Category 2How: 1 Oct–4 Oct, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormItem: 8 Oct–11 Oct, peak 90 kt, Category 2Jig: 11 Oct–16 Oct, peak 100 kt, Category 3King: 13 Oct–20 Oct, peak 115 kt, Category 4Unnamed: 17 Oct–24 Oct, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormLove: 18 Oct–22 Oct, peak 70 kt, Category 1Mike: 25 Oct–28 Oct, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 27 Oct–29 Oct, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 10 Nov–12 Nov, peak 60 kt, Tropical storm

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Able–110Cat 39534,050
Baker–90Cat 29793,010
Charlie–95Cat 29743,830
Dog–125Cat 49535,230
Easy–105Cat 39601,430
Fox–120Cat 49462,880
George–95Cat 29604,000
How–40Tropical storm—620
Item–90Cat 2980470
Jig–100Cat 3—2,420
King–115Cat 49551,370
Unnamed–60Tropical storm—2,080
Love–70Cat 1987980
Mike–40Tropical storm—680
Unnamed–45Tropical storm—470
Unnamed–60Tropical storm—500

16 storms with an IBTrACS 1950 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 12 Aug 1950, last 12 Nov 1950.

Tropical storms16

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes11

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)6

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDog

125 kt · 144 mph / 232 km/h

Lowest pressure946 hPa

Fox, 15 Sept 1950

Longest track record18.3 days

Dog, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1950 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season?

The archive records 11 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 16 tropical storms, with 6 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season?

Dog, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 125 kt (Category 4) on 5 Sept 1950, 12:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 953 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1950?

None. No storm in the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 12 Aug 1950 and the last on 12 Nov 1950, from 16 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1950 Atlantic hurricane season?

Able, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 14 Aug 1950, 18:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the North Atlantic basin for the 1950 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every North Atlantic season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology