The 1908 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1908)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between November 18, 1908 and November 24, 1908, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
November 18, 1908 to November 24, 1908
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1908324N13136

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
Nov 18, 18:0013.1N 133.9ENot reported
Nov 19, 00:0013.8N 127.8ENot reported
Nov 19, 06:0014.2N 124.1ETropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0014.3N 123.0ETropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0014.5N 122.3ETropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0014.8N 121.3ETropical storm
Nov 20, 06:0015.2N 120.3ETropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0015.5N 119.2ETropical storm
Nov 20, 18:0015.9N 118.3ETropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0016.3N 117.3ETropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0017.2N 116.7ETropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0018.5N 116.5ETropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0019.6N 116.8ETropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0020.2N 117.6ETropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0020.6N 118.6ETropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0020.9N 119.4ETropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0021.1N 120.2ETropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0021.2N 121.0ETropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0021.2N 121.9ETropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0021.2N 122.9ETropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0021.0N 123.8ETropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0020.9N 124.5ETropical 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.