The 1952 season

Typhoon Harriet (1952)

Typhoon Harriet reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between July 23, 1952 and July 31, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Harriet, 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 23, 1952 to July 31, 1952
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.1
Identifier
WP061952

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 23, 18:009.0N 134.0EDisturbance
Jul 24, 00:009.1N 133.5E1006 mbMixed
Jul 24, 06:009.3N 132.8E1004 mbMixed
Jul 24, 12:0010.0N 132.3E1004 mbMixed
Jul 24, 18:0010.8N 132.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0011.7N 132.0E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0012.6N 131.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0013.6N 131.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0014.4N 131.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0014.9N 127.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0015.2N 127.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0015.6N 126.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0016.0N 126.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0016.2N 126.1E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0016.6N 125.6E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0016.9N 125.0E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0017.1N 124.6E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0017.4N 124.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0018.7N 123.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0019.5N 122.2E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0019.9N 120.9E80 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0020.3N 119.5E85 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0021.7N 118.2E90 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0022.8N 116.8E100 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0024.1N 114.9E90 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0025.2N 112.9E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0025.1N 110.9E990 mbMixed
Jul 30, 12:0025.8N 108.7EDisturbance
Jul 30, 18:0026.2N 106.7EDisturbance
Jul 31, 00:0026.6N 104.5EDisturbance

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.