The 1951 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1951)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 55 kt in the North Atlantic between January 2, 1951 and January 12, 1951.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
January 2, 1951 to January 12, 1951
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 271 km (168 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.4
Fastest the center moved
32 kt (37 mph)
Identifier
AL011951

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
Jan 2, 12:0030.5N 58.0W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 2, 18:0029.9N 56.8W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 3, 00:0029.0N 55.7W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 3, 06:0027.5N 54.8W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 3, 12:0026.5N 54.5W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 3, 18:0026.1N 55.2W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 4, 00:0025.8N 56.1W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 4, 06:0025.5N 57.0W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 4, 12:0025.1N 57.9W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 4, 18:0024.0N 58.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 00:0022.7N 60.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 06:0022.1N 60.7W45 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 12:0021.7N 61.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 18:0021.5N 61.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jan 6, 00:0021.3N 61.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 6, 06:0021.0N 61.7W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 6, 12:0020.7N 62.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0020.3N 62.4W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 7, 00:0020.2N 62.9W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 7, 06:0020.2N 63.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0020.6N 64.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0021.0N 65.2W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0021.3N 65.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0021.6N 66.2W55 ktTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0021.9N 66.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0022.3N 66.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0023.0N 66.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0024.3N 65.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0026.0N 64.9W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0027.5N 64.2W50 ktTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0028.9N 63.4W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 10, 06:0030.6N 62.1W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 10, 12:0032.6N 60.5W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 10, 18:0034.2N 58.8W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 11, 00:0035.2N 57.2W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 11, 06:0037.0N 55.5W50 ktExtratropical
Jan 11, 12:0039.0N 53.5W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 11, 18:0041.3N 50.7W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 12, 00:0042.5N 48.0W45 ktExtratropical
Jan 12, 06:0043.6N 45.0W40 ktExtratropical
Jan 12, 12:0044.7N 41.0W40 ktExtratropical

Other North Atlantic 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.