The 1922 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1922)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between January 16, 1922 and January 19, 1922, with a lowest pressure of 971 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1922 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 16, 1922 to January 19, 1922
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
971 mb (28.67 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 127 km (79 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1922016S12152

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 16, 00:0012.3S 151.7ENot reported
Jan 16, 06:0012.8S 152.2ENot reported
Jan 16, 12:0013.2S 152.6ENot reported
Jan 16, 18:0013.7S 153.0ENot reported
Jan 17, 00:0014.2S 153.3ENot reported
Jan 17, 06:0014.7S 153.6ENot reported
Jan 17, 12:0015.2S 153.9ENot reported
Jan 17, 18:0015.8S 154.3ENot reported
Jan 18, 00:0016.7S 154.9ENot reported
Jan 18, 06:0017.7S 155.7ENot reported
Jan 18, 12:0018.7S 156.8ENot reported
Jan 18, 18:0019.6S 158.1ENot reported
Jan 19, 00:0020.2S 159.4ENot reported
Jan 19, 06:0020.5S 160.5ENot reported
Jan 19, 12:0020.7S 161.5ENot reported
Jan 19, 18:0020.8S 162.3ENot reported

Other South Pacific storms of 1922

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.