The 1951 season

Typhoon Hope (1951)

Typhoon Hope reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between April 15, 1951 and April 23, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Hope. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
April 15, 1951 to April 23, 1951
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 410 km (255 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Identifier
WP021951

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
Apr 15, 00:008.0N 151.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 06:008.3N 150.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 12:008.6N 149.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 18:008.8N 148.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 00:009.2N 147.2E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 06:009.6N 146.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 12:0010.3N 145.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 18:0011.0N 144.6E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 17, 00:0011.7N 144.0E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 17, 06:0012.5N 143.5E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 17, 12:0013.6N 142.5E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 17, 18:0014.3N 142.4E65 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 18, 00:0014.9N 142.4E70 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 18, 06:0016.1N 142.5E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 18, 12:0015.8N 142.7E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 18, 18:0015.7N 142.4E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 00:0015.9N 141.8E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 06:0015.9N 141.2E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 12:0015.7N 140.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 19, 18:0015.4N 139.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 20, 00:0015.2N 138.5E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 20, 06:0015.1N 137.4E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 20, 12:0015.0N 136.0E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 20, 18:0014.7N 135.2E995 mbTropical storm
Apr 21, 00:0014.7N 134.4E997 mbTropical storm
Apr 21, 06:0014.7N 133.5E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 21, 12:0014.7N 132.8E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 21, 18:0015.0N 132.0E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 22, 00:0015.1N 131.0E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 22, 06:0015.2N 130.3E998 mbTropical storm
Apr 22, 12:0015.4N 129.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 22, 18:0015.6N 128.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 23, 00:0015.9N 127.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Apr 23, 06:0016.3N 127.3E1005 mbTropical storm
Apr 23, 12:0017.1N 126.9E1008 mbMixed
Apr 23, 18:0017.8N 126.7E1008 mbMixed

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.