The 1923 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1923)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between January 17, 1923 and January 30, 1923, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1923 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 17, 1923 to January 30, 1923
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1923018S12152

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 17, 12:0012.4S 152.2ENot reported
Jan 17, 18:0012.7S 151.8ENot reported
Jan 18, 00:0013.2S 151.3ENot reported
Jan 18, 06:0013.9S 150.6ENot reported
Jan 18, 12:0014.7S 149.7ENot reported
Jan 18, 18:0015.3S 148.9ENot reported
Jan 19, 00:0015.9S 148.1ENot reported
Jan 19, 06:0016.5S 147.4ENot reported
Jan 19, 12:0017.2S 146.6ENot reported
Jan 19, 18:0018.1S 145.7ENot reported
Jan 20, 00:0018.4S 144.2ENot reported
Jan 20, 06:0017.6S 141.8ENot reported
Jan 20, 12:0016.2S 139.1ENot reported
Jan 20, 18:0014.6S 136.9ENot reported
Jan 21, 00:0013.2S 135.0ENot reported
Jan 21, 06:0012.6S 133.6ENot reported
Jan 21, 12:0012.4S 132.3ENot reported
Jan 21, 18:0012.2S 130.5ENot reported
Jan 22, 00:0012.2S 128.7ENot reported
Jan 22, 06:0012.2S 127.3ENot reported
Jan 22, 12:0012.3S 126.0ENot reported
Jan 22, 18:0012.7S 124.5ENot reported
Jan 23, 00:0013.2S 123.2ENot reported
Jan 23, 06:0013.4S 122.6ENot reported
Jan 23, 12:0013.6S 122.3ENot reported
Jan 23, 18:0013.8S 121.8ENot reported
Jan 24, 00:0014.1S 121.3ENot reported
Jan 24, 06:0014.4S 120.9ENot reported
Jan 24, 12:0014.6S 120.6ENot reported
Jan 24, 18:0014.8S 120.3ENot reported
Jan 25, 00:0015.0S 120.0ENot reported
Jan 25, 06:0015.1S 119.7ENot reported
Jan 25, 12:0015.2S 119.4ENot reported
Jan 25, 18:0015.4S 119.1ENot reported
Jan 26, 00:0015.7S 118.7ENot reported
Jan 26, 06:0016.2S 117.9ENot reported
Jan 26, 12:0016.9S 116.9ENot reported
Jan 26, 18:0017.5S 115.9ENot reported
Jan 27, 00:0018.1S 115.0ENot reported
Jan 27, 06:0018.6S 114.4ENot reported
Jan 27, 12:0019.0S 114.0ENot reported
Jan 27, 18:0019.5S 113.6ENot reported
Jan 28, 00:0020.0S 113.2ENot reported
Jan 28, 06:0020.6S 112.8ENot reported
Jan 28, 12:0021.3S 112.3ENot reported
Jan 28, 18:0022.2S 111.7ENot reported
Jan 29, 00:0023.2S 111.2ENot reported
Jan 29, 06:0024.0S 110.9ENot reported
Jan 29, 12:0024.9S 110.7ENot reported
Jan 29, 18:0025.9S 110.5ENot reported
Jan 30, 00:0027.0S 110.3ENot reported

Other South Pacific storms of 1923

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.