Hurricane Able (1951)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

May 16, 1951 to May 24, 1951

Peak strength

Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)

Lowest pressure

973 mb (28.73 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

16.1

Fastest the center moved

26 kt (30 mph)

Identifier

AL021951

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1,436 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 1.89 inches (48 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1951Tropical Storm55 kt
• Tropical Storm BakerNorth Atlantic · 1951Tropical Storm50 kt · 996 mb
• Hurricane CharlieNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 4115 kt · 968 mb
• Hurricane DogNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 180 kt · 992 mb
• Hurricane EasyNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 4130 kt · 937 mb
• Hurricane FoxNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 3100 kt
• Tropical Storm GeorgeNorth Atlantic · 1951Tropical Storm50 kt · 999 mb
• Hurricane HowNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 285 kt · 963 mb
• Tropical Storm ItemNorth Atlantic · 1951Tropical Storm55 kt · 998 mb
• Hurricane JigNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 165 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneNorth Atlantic · 1951Cat 170 kt

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Able