The 1952 season

Typhoon Mary (1952)

Typhoon Mary reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 28, 1952 and September 5, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Mary, 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 28, 1952 to September 5, 1952
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.7
Identifier
WP101952

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 28, 00:008.0N 137.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:009.0N 136.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:008.0N 137.0E1003 mbMixed
Aug 28, 18:009.0N 136.0E1003 mbMixed
Aug 29, 00:009.5N 134.8E1003 mbMixed
Aug 29, 06:009.7N 133.5E1002 mbMixed
Aug 29, 12:009.6N 133.2E30 kt1002 mbMixed
Aug 29, 18:009.7N 131.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0010.0N 130.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0010.9N 129.1E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0011.8N 128.2E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0012.9N 126.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.0N 125.6E60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0015.2N 124.5E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0016.4N 123.3E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0017.5N 122.7E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0018.8N 121.9E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0019.9N 120.8E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0021.0N 120.0E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0023.1N 119.4E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0025.0N 119.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0027.0N 119.5E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0028.7N 120.0E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0030.5N 120.6E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0032.0N 121.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0033.7N 123.0E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0035.2N 125.0E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0038.0N 128.0E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0039.5N 130.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0041.3N 134.0E35 kt994 mbMixed
Sep 4, 12:0043.0N 138.0E30 kt996 mbMixed
Sep 4, 18:0042.0N 136.0E1000 mbMixed
Sep 5, 00:0043.0N 138.6E1004 mbExtratropical

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.