The 1887 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1887)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between July 24, 1887 and July 28, 1887, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1887 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
July 24, 1887 to July 28, 1887
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1887206N22129

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
Jul 24, 18:0022.6N 128.5ENot reported
Jul 25, 00:0024.2N 127.1ENot reported
Jul 25, 06:0025.3N 126.0ETropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0026.1N 125.1ETropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0026.8N 124.3ETropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0027.6N 123.5ETropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0028.3N 122.8ETropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0029.0N 122.0ETropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0029.4N 121.2ETropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0029.6N 120.2ETropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0029.6N 119.0ENot reported
Jul 27, 12:0029.4N 117.7ENot reported
Jul 27, 18:0028.9N 116.5ENot reported
Jul 28, 00:0028.2N 115.4ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1887

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.