The 1951 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1951)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 26 kt in the Eastern Pacific between March 21, 1951 and March 30, 1951, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
March 21, 1951 to March 30, 1951
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 26 kt (30 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
CP011951

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
Mar 21, 00:0023.4N 165.0W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 06:0023.4N 163.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 12:0023.5N 162.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 18:0023.5N 161.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 00:0023.6N 161.0W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 06:0023.6N 159.4W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 12:0024.0N 157.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 18:0025.4N 157.2W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 23, 00:0027.2N 156.5W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 23, 06:0028.8N 155.6W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 23, 12:0030.0N 154.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 23, 18:0029.4N 154.7W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 24, 00:0028.1N 154.6W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 24, 06:0027.6N 154.3W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 24, 12:0027.1N 154.0W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 24, 18:0025.6N 153.7W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 25, 00:0024.2N 153.5W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 25, 06:0023.5N 153.6W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 25, 12:0023.0N 154.2W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 25, 18:0022.8N 154.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 26, 00:0022.5N 155.8W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 26, 06:0022.1N 156.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 26, 12:0021.6N 157.9W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 26, 18:0021.1N 158.3W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 27, 00:0020.8N 158.4W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 27, 06:0020.8N 158.5W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 27, 12:0021.0N 158.6W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 27, 18:0021.2N 158.5W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 28, 00:0021.4N 158.3W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 28, 06:0021.7N 158.0W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 28, 12:0022.0N 157.8W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 28, 18:0022.1N 158.4W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 29, 00:0022.1N 159.2W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 29, 06:0022.2N 159.8W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 29, 12:0022.4N 160.4W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 29, 18:0022.7N 161.0W26 ktTropical storm
Mar 30, 00:0023.1N 161.7W26 ktTropical storm

Other Eastern 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.

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