The 1952 season

Typhoon Emma (1952)

Typhoon Emma reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between June 28, 1952 and July 6, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 973 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Emma, 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 28, 1952 to July 6, 1952
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
973 mb (28.73 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.9
Identifier
WP031952

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 28, 00:005.4N 143.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:006.1N 143.3E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:006.8N 143.1E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:007.4N 142.7E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:008.0N 142.1E50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:008.3N 141.2E65 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:008.7N 139.9E75 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:008.9N 138.8E75 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:009.0N 137.3E75 kt979 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:009.2N 135.7E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:009.3N 134.2E75 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:009.3N 132.7E80 kt981 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:009.3N 131.3E80 kt981 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:009.3N 130.1E100 kt973 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:009.4N 129.0E110 kt973 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:009.5N 127.8E110 kt973 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:009.7N 126.6E110 kt974 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0010.0N 125.2E90 kt977 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0010.5N 123.7E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0010.9N 122.4E60 kt983 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0011.3N 121.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0011.7N 120.4E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0012.2N 119.7E60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0012.7N 118.9E70 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0013.2N 118.2E80 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0014.1N 117.2E85 kt983 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0015.3N 116.2E85 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0016.4N 115.3E90 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0017.5N 114.5E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0018.4N 113.5E100 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0019.1N 112.4E95 kt978 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0019.6N 111.3E85 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0020.0N 110.0E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 06:0020.8N 109.3E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0021.6N 108.4E35 kt993 mbMixed

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.