The 1952 season

Typhoon Charlotte (1952)

Typhoon Charlotte reached Category 2 in the Western Pacific between June 9, 1952 and June 18, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Charlotte, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1952 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
June 9, 1952 to June 18, 1952
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.1
Identifier
WP011952

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
Jun 9, 12:0014.9N 117.9E992 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0014.8N 117.5E990 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0016.1N 116.5E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0016.7N 116.1E40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0017.2N 115.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0018.1N 115.7E50 kt983 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0018.9N 115.5E55 kt981 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0019.4N 115.2E55 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0019.8N 114.9E60 kt971 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0020.2N 114.4E65 kt966 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0020.6N 113.8E70 kt962 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0020.9N 113.3E85 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0021.2N 112.8E85 kt961 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0021.3N 112.2E80 kt964 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0021.1N 111.5E70 kt968 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0020.9N 111.0E65 kt971 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0020.8N 110.4E60 kt974 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0021.4N 109.9E60 kt977 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0021.9N 110.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 06:0022.8N 110.8E50 kt984 mbMixed
Jun 14, 12:0023.5N 111.7E40 kt986 mbMixed
Jun 14, 18:0023.9N 112.8E40 kt988 mbMixed
Jun 15, 00:0024.3N 114.1E30 kt990 mbMixed
Jun 15, 06:0024.5N 116.3E992 mbMixed
Jun 15, 12:0025.3N 117.7E995 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 18:0026.1N 118.7E996 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 00:0026.9N 119.6E998 mbTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0027.8N 120.3E1000 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 12:0028.5N 121.6E1001 mbExtratropical
Jun 16, 18:0029.1N 122.6E1003 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 00:0029.7N 123.7E1004 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 06:0030.3N 125.3E1006 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 12:0032.0N 127.0E1007 mbExtratropical
Jun 17, 18:0033.5N 128.3E1008 mbExtratropical
Jun 18, 00:0034.0N 130.0E1008 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1952

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.