Typhoon Amy (1951)

Typhoon Amy reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between December 3, 1951 and December 19, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 950 mb, and made landfall. It killed 991 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Amy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1951 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin: Western Pacific
Dates: December 3, 1951 to December 19, 1951
Peak strength: Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure: 950 mb (28.05 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 42.0
Fastest the center moved: 18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier: WP161951

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

991 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 3, 00:00	9.0N 150.1E	60 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 3, 06:00	9.0N 149.2E	70 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 3, 12:00	9.0N 148.5E	70 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 3, 18:00	9.0N 147.2E	65 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 00:00	9.1N 146.1E	65 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 06:00	9.2N 144.8E	65 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 12:00	9.5N 143.8E	55 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 18:00	9.9N 141.9E	50 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 00:00	10.5N 140.5E	45 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 06:00	11.1N 139.1E	85 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 12:00	11.4N 138.0E	90 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 18:00	11.8N 136.4E	95 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 00:00	12.0N 135.0E	100 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 06:00	11.9N 134.1E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 12:00	12.0N 133.0E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 18:00	12.0N 132.5E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 00:00	12.0N 131.6E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 06:00	12.0N 131.6E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 12:00	12.2N 130.5E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 18:00	12.3N 129.8E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 00:00	12.3N 129.2E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 06:00	12.1N 128.5E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 12:00	11.8N 127.9E	120 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 18:00	11.6N 127.4E	110 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 00:00	11.2N 126.8E	100 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 06:00	11.0N 126.0E	95 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 12:00	10.8N 124.8E	90 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 18:00	10.6N 123.7E	85 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 00:00	10.5N 122.6E	85 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 06:00	10.5N 121.6E	85 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	10.5N 120.7E	80 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	10.5N 120.1E	80 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 00:00	10.7N 119.4E	80 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 06:00	10.9N 119.0E	80 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 12:00	11.1N 118.8E	80 kt	968 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 18:00	11.3N 118.6E	85 kt	968 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 00:00	11.5N 118.4E	85 kt	968 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 06:00	11.7N 118.3E	85 kt	968 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 12:00	11.9N 118.2E	90 kt	970 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	12.1N 118.2E	90 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 00:00	12.4N 118.3E	85 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 06:00	12.5N 118.5E	85 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 12:00	12.5N 118.7E	80 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 18:00	12.3N 118.5E	80 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 00:00	12.2N 118.2E	80 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 06:00	12.0N 118.3E	85 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 12:00	11.8N 118.3E	90 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 14, 18:00	11.6N 118.2E	95 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 00:00	11.4N 117.9E	100 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 06:00	11.3N 117.5E	100 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 12:00	11.2N 117.1E	100 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 15, 18:00	11.1N 116.7E	85 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 00:00	11.0N 116.3E	70 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 06:00	10.7N 115.7E	85 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 12:00	10.5N 115.1E	65 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 16, 18:00	10.3N 114.7E	55 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 17, 00:00	10.1N 113.8E	35 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 17, 06:00	10.9N 112.5E	35 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 17, 12:00	11.1N 112.4E		1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 17, 18:00	11.2N 112.2E		1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 18, 00:00	11.6N 112.3E			Tropical storm
Dec 18, 06:00	11.9N 112.2E			Tropical storm
Dec 18, 12:00	12.2N 112.1E			Tropical storm
Dec 18, 18:00	12.6N 112.0E			Tropical storm
Dec 19, 00:00	13.0N 112.0E			Disturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1951

What this means

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.

Sources

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.

Wikipedia article: Typhoon Amy