The 1951 season

Typhoon Pat (1951)

Typhoon Pat reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between September 20, 1951 and October 3, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Pat, 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
September 20, 1951 to October 3, 1951
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
WP101951

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 20, 00:008.0N 137.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 20, 06:008.1N 136.7E1006 mbMixed
Sep 20, 12:008.3N 136.3E1006 mbMixed
Sep 20, 18:008.5N 135.8E1006 mbMixed
Sep 21, 00:008.7N 135.3E1006 mbMixed
Sep 21, 06:009.2N 134.9E1006 mbMixed
Sep 21, 12:009.8N 134.3E1006 mbMixed
Sep 21, 18:0010.5N 133.5E1006 mbMixed
Sep 22, 00:0011.3N 132.8E1006 mbMixed
Sep 22, 06:0011.8N 132.2E1006 mbMixed
Sep 22, 12:0012.3N 131.9E1006 mbMixed
Sep 22, 18:0012.6N 131.3E1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0013.2N 130.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0013.9N 128.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0014.7N 126.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0015.8N 124.6E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0017.8N 122.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0018.3N 121.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0018.9N 120.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0019.3N 118.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0019.9N 117.5E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0020.3N 116.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0021.0N 117.1E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0021.7N 118.2E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0022.3N 119.4E90 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0023.2N 119.8E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0023.9N 120.6E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0024.3N 121.4E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0024.1N 120.3E995 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0024.8N 120.6E995 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0025.8N 121.0E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0026.9N 121.2E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0028.1N 121.3E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0029.1N 121.3E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0030.2N 121.3E998 mbMixed
Sep 28, 18:0031.8N 121.8E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 00:0033.3N 124.0E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 06:0036.1N 127.3E998 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 12:0038.0N 129.4E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 29, 18:0039.5N 131.7E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 00:0041.0N 134.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 06:0043.0N 136.8E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 12:0044.5N 139.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Sep 30, 18:0046.0N 141.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 00:0047.3N 143.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 06:0048.6N 145.0E1002 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 12:0048.9N 146.6E1000 mbExtratropical
Oct 1, 18:0049.4N 148.0E998 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 00:0050.0N 151.0E998 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 06:0050.9N 154.5E996 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 12:0051.1N 158.1E998 mbExtratropical
Oct 2, 18:0050.7N 162.3E1000 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 00:0051.6N 166.5E1000 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 06:0052.0N 170.8E996 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 12:0051.8N 174.5E996 mbExtratropical
Oct 3, 18:0051.5N 177.5EExtratropical

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.