The 1953 season

Tropical Depression Nina (1953)

Tropical Depression Nina peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 18, 1953 and August 27, 1953, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Nina, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1953 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 18, 1953 to August 27, 1953
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1953231N32116

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 18, 12:0031.6N 115.6EDisturbance
Aug 18, 18:0031.9N 115.1EDisturbance
Aug 19, 00:0032.1N 114.8EDisturbance
Aug 19, 06:0032.4N 114.4ETropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0032.8N 114.1EDisturbance
Aug 19, 18:0033.6N 114.2EDisturbance
Aug 20, 00:0034.5N 114.8EExtratropical
Aug 20, 06:0035.2N 115.5EExtratropical
Aug 20, 12:0035.8N 116.7EExtratropical
Aug 20, 18:0036.4N 117.7EExtratropical
Aug 21, 00:0037.1N 118.7EExtratropical
Aug 21, 06:0038.0N 120.3EExtratropical
Aug 21, 12:0038.5N 122.0EExtratropical
Aug 21, 18:0038.7N 123.6EExtratropical
Aug 22, 00:0038.8N 125.0EExtratropical
Aug 22, 06:0038.9N 126.8EExtratropical
Aug 22, 12:0038.9N 128.9EExtratropical
Aug 22, 18:0038.8N 130.8EExtratropical
Aug 23, 00:0038.7N 132.6EExtratropical
Aug 23, 06:0038.6N 134.6EExtratropical
Aug 23, 12:0038.5N 136.5EExtratropical
Aug 23, 18:0038.4N 138.0EExtratropical
Aug 24, 00:0037.7N 140.0EExtratropical
Aug 24, 06:0036.8N 145.0EExtratropical
Aug 24, 12:0037.6N 149.7EExtratropical
Aug 24, 18:0038.8N 152.5EExtratropical
Aug 25, 00:0040.0N 155.5EExtratropical
Aug 25, 06:0041.5N 158.5EExtratropical
Aug 25, 12:0044.0N 161.0EExtratropical
Aug 25, 18:0047.0N 163.0EExtratropical
Aug 26, 00:0048.3N 163.7EExtratropical
Aug 26, 06:0049.6N 164.7EExtratropical
Aug 26, 12:0051.2N 165.7EExtratropical
Aug 26, 18:0052.6N 166.8EExtratropical
Aug 27, 00:0053.9N 167.8EExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1953

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.