The 1952 season

Tropical Storm Freda (1952)

Tropical Storm Freda peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 9, 1952 and July 16, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Freda, 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
July 9, 1952 to July 16, 1952
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
WP041952

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
Jul 9, 06:0023.2N 124.0EDisturbance
Jul 9, 12:0023.4N 124.4EDisturbance
Jul 9, 18:0023.6N 124.7EDisturbance
Jul 10, 00:0023.7N 125.0EDisturbance
Jul 10, 06:0023.9N 125.3EDisturbance
Jul 10, 12:0024.0N 125.6EDisturbance
Jul 10, 18:0024.0N 125.9E1002 mbMixed
Jul 11, 00:0024.0N 126.7E1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0023.9N 126.8E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0024.1N 127.3E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0024.3N 127.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0024.5N 128.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0025.3N 129.4E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0026.2N 130.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0027.0N 130.9E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0027.8N 131.8E45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0028.2N 132.4E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0028.4N 133.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0028.8N 133.8E35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0029.4N 134.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0029.8N 133.6E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0029.6N 132.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0030.3N 132.3E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0031.0N 131.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0032.0N 131.0E30 kt999 mbMixed
Jul 15, 12:0032.8N 130.0E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0034.4N 130.2E1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0036.0N 131.6E1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0037.7N 131.7E1007 mbTropical storm

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.