Super Typhoon Iris (1951)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

April 28, 1951 to May 14, 1951

Peak strength

Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)

Lowest pressure

909 mb (26.84 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

32.5

Identifier

WP031951

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression990 mb
• Typhoon GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 4120 kt · 970 mb
• Typhoon HopeWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 170 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon JoanWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 175 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon KateWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 3100 kt · 975 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression992 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression1005 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon LouiseWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 4120 kt · 904 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression989 mb
• Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 3100 kt · 886 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon NoraWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 3100 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon OraWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 285 kt · 970 mb
• Typhoon PatWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 290 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 4120 kt · 924 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon SarahWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 3100 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 4125 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Storm VeraWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon WandaWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 290 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1951Tropical Depression
• Typhoon AmyWestern Pacific · 1951 · 991 deathsCat 4120 kt · 950 mb
• Typhoon BabsWestern Pacific · 1951Cat 3100 kt · 980 mb

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.