The 1952 season

Tropical Storm Dog (1952)

Tropical Storm Dog peaked at 60 kt in the North Atlantic between September 24, 1952 and September 30, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dog, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
September 24, 1952 to September 30, 1952
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 739 km (459 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.2
Identifier
AL071952

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
Sep 24, 12:0012.6N 48.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0012.9N 49.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0013.2N 50.2W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0013.7N 50.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0014.2N 51.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 25, 18:0014.7N 52.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0015.2N 52.5W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0015.7N 52.9W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0016.2N 53.4W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0016.6N 54.0W60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0017.0N 54.6W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0017.5N 55.1W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0018.0N 55.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0018.7N 55.9W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0019.3N 56.3W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0019.9N 56.7W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0020.4N 57.0W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0020.8N 57.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0021.1N 57.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0021.3N 58.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0021.4N 58.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 29, 18:0021.5N 58.9W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 00:0021.7N 59.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 30, 06:0021.9N 59.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 30, 12:0022.1N 59.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 18:0022.2N 59.8W25 ktTropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.

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