The 1952 season

Typhoon Nona (1952)

Typhoon Nona reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 1, 1952 and September 8, 1952, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Nona, 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
September 1, 1952 to September 8, 1952
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.9
Identifier
WP111952

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
Sep 1, 00:009.3N 138.5E1006 mbMixed
Sep 1, 06:0010.0N 137.5E1004 mbMixed
Sep 1, 12:0010.3N 136.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0010.3N 134.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0010.4N 133.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0010.9N 132.6E1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0012.2N 132.1E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0012.5N 130.8E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:0013.0N 129.5E50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0013.5N 128.6E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0014.7N 127.5E60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0015.2N 125.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0016.5N 123.3E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0017.3N 122.2E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0018.0N 121.1E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0018.1N 120.0E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0018.2N 118.5E75 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0018.3N 117.3E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0018.9N 116.1E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0019.6N 114.7E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0019.8N 112.7E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0019.7N 111.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0019.9N 109.1E70 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0019.9N 108.0E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0020.0N 106.4E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0020.0N 105.9E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0020.0N 105.2E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0020.2N 104.0E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0021.0N 103.2E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0022.0N 102.5E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0023.0N 102.0E25 ktTropical 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.