The 1972 season

Tropical Storm Nina (1972)

Tropical Storm Nina peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between May 31, 1972 and June 7, 1972, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Nina, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1972 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
May 31, 1972 to June 7, 1972
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1189 km (739 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP041972

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
May 31, 00:008.5N 146.0E30 ktTropical storm
May 31, 06:008.7N 145.4E30 ktTropical storm
May 31, 12:008.9N 144.8E30 ktTropical storm
May 31, 18:009.1N 144.3E30 ktTropical storm
Jun 1, 00:009.2N 143.8E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 1, 06:009.3N 143.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 1, 12:009.4N 142.6E30 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 1, 18:009.2N 142.9E30 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 2, 00:009.0N 143.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 2, 06:009.1N 144.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 2, 12:009.2N 145.8E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 2, 18:009.3N 147.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 3, 00:009.1N 148.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 3, 06:008.7N 149.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 3, 12:008.4N 151.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 3, 18:009.1N 152.4E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 00:0010.3N 153.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 06:0010.5N 154.4E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 12:0011.2N 155.3E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 4, 18:0012.0N 156.5E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 00:0012.8N 157.3E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 5, 06:0014.3N 158.0E30 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 5, 12:0015.8N 158.2E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 5, 18:0017.4N 158.7E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 6, 00:0019.0N 159.2E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 6, 06:0020.5N 159.9E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Jun 6, 12:0022.0N 160.5E25 kt1008 mbMixed
Jun 6, 18:0023.7N 161.0E25 kt1008 mbMixed
Jun 7, 00:0025.5N 161.6E20 kt1008 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1972

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.