The 1913 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1913)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between January 28, 1913 and February 15, 1913, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1913 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
South Pacific
Dates
January 28, 1913 to February 15, 1913
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1913028S17152

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
Jan 28, 00:0017.0S 151.9ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0016.8S 151.0ETropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0016.6S 150.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0016.5S 149.4ETropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0016.4S 148.7ETropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0016.4S 148.2ETropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0016.2S 147.7ETropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0016.0S 147.4ETropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0016.0S 147.0ETropical storm
Jan 30, 06:0016.2S 146.2ETropical storm
Jan 30, 12:0016.4S 145.2ETropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0016.5S 144.3ETropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0016.5S 143.2ETropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0016.4S 142.4ENot reported
Jan 31, 12:0016.3S 141.7ENot reported
Jan 31, 18:0016.2S 140.9ENot reported
Feb 1, 00:0016.1S 140.1ENot reported
Feb 1, 06:0016.1S 139.4ENot reported
Feb 1, 12:0016.1S 138.8ENot reported
Feb 1, 18:0016.1S 138.1ENot reported
Feb 2, 00:0016.1S 137.3ENot reported
Feb 2, 06:0016.0S 136.4ENot reported
Feb 2, 12:0015.9S 135.8ENot reported
Feb 2, 18:0015.8S 135.2ENot reported
Feb 3, 00:0015.6S 134.7ETropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0015.3S 134.2ETropical storm
Feb 3, 12:0014.9S 133.6ETropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0014.5S 132.9ETropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0014.2S 132.1ETropical storm
Feb 4, 06:0014.0S 131.4ETropical storm
Feb 4, 12:0013.9S 130.7ETropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0014.0S 130.0ETropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0014.1S 129.3ETropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0014.4S 128.6ETropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0014.7S 128.0ETropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0015.0S 127.4ETropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0015.3S 126.8ETropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0015.4S 126.3ETropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0015.6S 125.8ETropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0015.9S 125.3ETropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0016.3S 125.0ETropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0016.6S 125.1ETropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0016.8S 125.4ETropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0016.9S 125.8ETropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0017.0S 126.4ETropical storm
Feb 8, 06:0017.2S 127.6ETropical storm
Feb 8, 12:0017.4S 129.0ETropical storm
Feb 8, 18:0017.6S 129.9ETropical storm
Feb 9, 00:0017.7S 130.7ETropical storm
Feb 9, 06:0017.8S 131.4ETropical storm
Feb 9, 12:0017.8S 131.9ETropical storm
Feb 9, 18:0017.9S 132.5ETropical storm
Feb 10, 00:0018.7S 134.4ETropical storm
Feb 10, 06:0019.5S 136.1ENot reported
Feb 10, 12:0020.0S 137.2ENot reported
Feb 10, 18:0020.4S 138.1ENot reported
Feb 11, 00:0020.9S 138.8ENot reported
Feb 11, 06:0021.7S 139.5ENot reported
Feb 11, 12:0022.7S 140.0ENot reported
Feb 11, 18:0023.6S 140.3ENot reported
Feb 12, 00:0024.8S 140.2ENot reported
Feb 12, 06:0026.3S 139.8ENot reported
Feb 12, 12:0028.0S 139.1ENot reported
Feb 12, 18:0029.7S 137.9ENot reported
Feb 13, 00:0031.4S 136.7ENot reported
Feb 13, 06:0033.3S 136.1ENot reported
Feb 13, 12:0035.2S 136.1ENot reported
Feb 13, 18:0037.1S 136.5ENot reported
Feb 14, 00:0038.8S 137.7ENot reported
Feb 14, 06:0040.3S 139.6ENot reported
Feb 14, 12:0041.5S 142.2ENot reported
Feb 14, 18:0042.4S 145.2ENot reported
Feb 15, 00:0043.2S 148.3ENot reported

Other South Pacific storms of 1913

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.