The 1908 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1908)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between June 18, 1908 and June 22, 1908.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
June 18, 1908 to June 22, 1908
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 140 km (87 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1908171N15127

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
Jun 18, 18:0015.6N 127.1ENot reported
Jun 19, 00:0016.0N 126.7ENot reported
Jun 19, 06:0016.6N 126.3ENot reported
Jun 19, 12:0017.2N 125.8ENot reported
Jun 19, 18:0017.8N 125.4ENot reported
Jun 20, 00:0018.4N 124.9ENot reported
Jun 20, 06:0019.1N 124.4ENot reported
Jun 20, 12:0019.9N 123.8ENot reported
Jun 20, 18:0020.9N 123.2ETropical storm
Jun 21, 00:0021.9N 122.7ETropical storm
Jun 21, 06:0023.2N 122.8ETropical storm
Jun 21, 12:0024.8N 123.7ETropical storm
Jun 21, 18:0026.3N 124.8ETropical storm
Jun 22, 00:0027.4N 125.9ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1908

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.