Hurricane Baker (1952)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 31, 1952 to September 10, 1952

Peak strength

Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)

Lowest pressure

969 mb (28.61 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 150 km (93 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

15.5

Identifier

AL041952

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm60 kt
• Hurricane AbleNorth Atlantic · 1952Cat 285 kt · 983 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane CharlieNorth Atlantic · 1952Cat 3105 kt · 958 mb
• Tropical Storm DogNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm60 kt · 998 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm40 kt
• Hurricane EasyNorth Atlantic · 1952Cat 290 kt · 968 mb
• Hurricane FoxNorth Atlantic · 1952Cat 4125 kt · 934 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Atlantic · 1952Tropical Storm50 kt · 992 mb

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.

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.