The 1951 season

Hurricane Easy (1951)

Hurricane Easy reached Category 4 in the North Atlantic between September 1, 1951 and September 14, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 937 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Easy, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
September 1, 1951 to September 14, 1951
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
937 mb (27.67 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 571 km (355 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
31.9
Fastest the center moved
40 kt (46 mph)
Identifier
AL061951

Deaths and damage

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 1, 06:0012.5N 32.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0013.2N 33.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0014.0N 34.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0014.6N 35.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0014.8N 36.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0015.0N 37.4W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0015.3N 38.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0015.7N 40.2W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0016.1N 41.8W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0016.4N 43.3W65 ktHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0016.6N 44.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0016.7N 45.7W75 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0016.9N 46.9W80 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0017.2N 48.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0017.8N 49.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0018.7N 51.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0019.7N 52.9W95 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0020.6N 54.4W90 ktHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0021.2N 55.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0021.5N 57.4W85 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0021.9N 59.1W85 ktHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0022.3N 60.6W90 kt967 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0022.6N 61.9W100 kt957 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0023.0N 63.2W110 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0023.6N 64.6W115 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0024.5N 66.0W120 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0025.4N 66.9W125 kt937 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0026.2N 67.5W130 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0027.1N 67.6W130 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0027.9N 67.4W125 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0028.6N 67.1W120 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0029.4N 66.4W110 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0029.9N 65.5W100 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0030.5N 64.3W95 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0031.6N 62.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0033.0N 61.1W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0034.2N 59.7W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0035.4N 58.1W85 ktHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0036.7N 56.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0037.9N 55.5W80 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0039.0N 54.1W75 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0039.5N 52.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0039.5N 51.2W70 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 00:0039.5N 49.9W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 06:0039.5N 48.6W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 12:0039.5N 47.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 12, 18:0039.5N 45.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 00:0039.7N 44.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 06:0040.7N 41.5W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 12:0041.9N 39.3W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 13, 18:0043.2N 37.0W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 14, 00:0044.2N 32.2W60 ktExtratropical
Sep 14, 06:0045.2N 28.0W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 14, 12:0046.3N 22.5W65 ktExtratropical
Sep 14, 18:0047.5N 17.1W60 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.

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