The 1951 season

Typhoon Nora (1951)

Typhoon Nora reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 27, 1951 and September 4, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nora, 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
August 27, 1951 to September 4, 1951
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.6
Identifier
WP081951

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
Aug 27, 00:0011.4N 144.5E1008 mbMixed
Aug 27, 06:0011.6N 144.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 27, 12:0011.8N 143.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 18:0012.1N 142.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0012.6N 141.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0013.1N 139.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0013.8N 138.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0014.4N 137.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0015.0N 136.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0015.4N 134.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0015.9N 133.9E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0016.4N 133.1E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0016.7N 132.1E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0016.5N 132.0E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0017.3N 130.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0017.8N 129.4E40 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0017.8N 128.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0017.6N 126.7E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0017.5N 125.3E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0017.7N 123.9E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0018.0N 122.5E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0018.5N 120.9E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0018.9N 119.3E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0019.2N 117.6E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0019.1N 115.9E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0019.5N 114.0E100 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0020.0N 112.3E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0019.5N 110.2E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0020.0N 108.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0019.2N 108.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0019.5N 106.0E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0019.7N 105.8E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0021.0N 105.5E35 kt992 mbTropical storm

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.