The 1951 season

Tropical Storm Vera (1951)

Tropical Storm Vera peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between October 28, 1951 and November 3, 1951, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Vera. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 28, 1951 to November 3, 1951
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 452 km (281 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
WP141951

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
Oct 28, 06:0016.0N 128.0E1006 mbMixed
Oct 28, 12:0017.0N 128.0E1008 mbMixed
Oct 28, 18:0018.0N 128.1E1008 mbMixed
Oct 29, 00:0019.0N 128.2E1008 mbMixed
Oct 29, 06:0019.9N 128.4E1006 mbMixed
Oct 29, 12:0020.6N 129.0E1006 mbMixed
Oct 29, 18:0021.8N 130.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0023.0N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0024.3N 133.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0025.8N 135.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0027.3N 138.5E1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0028.5N 141.5E60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0029.8N 145.0E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0030.8N 148.0E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0031.9N 150.8E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0032.4N 154.0E35 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0033.1N 156.8E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0034.6N 160.3E990 mbMixed
Nov 1, 18:0035.4N 163.4E990 mbExtratropical
Nov 2, 00:0036.3N 167.2E990 mbExtratropical
Nov 2, 06:0037.2N 171.0E992 mbExtratropical
Nov 2, 12:0038.2N 175.0E995 mbExtratropical
Nov 2, 18:0039.5N 179.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Nov 3, 00:0040.5N 182.0EExtratropical

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.