The 1952 season

Tropical Depression Ivy (1952)

Tropical Depression Ivy peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 4, 1952 and August 14, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Ivy, 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
August 4, 1952 to August 14, 1952
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 146 km (91 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1952217N15127

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
Aug 4, 06:0015.1N 126.6ETropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0015.1N 127.3ETropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0015.4N 127.6ETropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0016.2N 127.7E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0016.8N 128.4E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0017.5N 129.3E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0018.1N 130.2E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0018.3N 131.5E995 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0018.5N 133.1E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0019.3N 135.0E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0020.5N 136.8E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0021.8N 138.4E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0023.3N 139.7E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0025.7N 140.6E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0027.7N 139.5E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0030.0N 138.9E990 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0032.0N 140.6E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0034.0N 142.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0037.0N 143.0E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0039.5N 144.0E996 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 06:0040.0N 145.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 12:0040.0N 146.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 9, 18:0039.2N 147.7E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 00:0039.1N 149.9E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 06:0039.7N 152.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 12:0040.6N 153.8E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 10, 18:0041.0N 154.7E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 00:0041.1N 156.1E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 06:0040.9N 157.1E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 12:0040.6N 158.0E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 18:0040.3N 159.1E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 00:0040.2N 160.2E1000 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 06:0040.6N 160.9E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 12:0041.0N 161.6E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 18:0041.4N 162.9E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 00:0041.8N 164.2E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 06:0041.5N 167.2E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 12:0041.1N 170.2E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 18:0040.5N 172.6E1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 00:0039.9N 175.1E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 06:0038.5N 177.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 12:0037.0N 179.0E1006 mbExtratropical
Aug 14, 18:0035.0N 181.0EExtratropical

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.