The 1951 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1951)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 9, 1951 and August 19, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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 9, 1951 to August 19, 1951
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1951221N10136

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 9, 00:0010.0N 136.0E1006 mbMixed
Aug 9, 06:0011.0N 134.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0012.6N 133.4E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0013.4N 132.2E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0013.9N 131.0E991 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0014.4N 129.9E989 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0014.7N 128.7E991 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0015.2N 127.3E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0015.8N 125.8E997 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0016.8N 124.2E999 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0017.8N 122.7E999 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0018.8N 121.1E999 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0019.9N 120.0E999 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0020.5N 119.6E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0021.0N 119.4E997 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0021.5N 119.3E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0022.1N 119.1E993 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0022.5N 119.0E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0022.9N 119.0E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0023.2N 118.9E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0023.4N 118.6E991 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0023.6N 118.1E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0023.4N 117.6E993 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0023.0N 117.0E993 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0022.7N 116.3E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0022.5N 115.7E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0022.3N 115.1E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0022.1N 114.4E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0021.9N 113.8E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0021.8N 113.3E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0021.6N 112.8E993 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0021.5N 112.4E993 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0021.4N 112.0E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0021.3N 111.6E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0021.1N 111.2E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0021.1N 110.6E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0021.1N 110.1E996 mbMixed
Aug 18, 06:0021.2N 109.5E996 mbMixed
Aug 18, 12:0021.3N 109.1E997 mbMixed
Aug 18, 18:0021.4N 108.7E997 mbMixed
Aug 19, 00:0021.6N 108.4E999 mbMixed
Aug 19, 06:0021.8N 108.1E1000 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.