The 1923 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1923)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between February 18, 1923 and March 4, 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
February 18, 1923 to March 4, 1923
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1923050S12152

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
Feb 18, 12:0011.6S 152.1ENot reported
Feb 18, 18:0011.7S 152.1ENot reported
Feb 19, 00:0011.8S 151.8ENot reported
Feb 19, 06:0012.0S 151.2ENot reported
Feb 19, 12:0012.3S 150.3ENot reported
Feb 19, 18:0012.5S 149.3ENot reported
Feb 20, 00:0012.7S 148.3ENot reported
Feb 20, 06:0012.7S 147.4ENot reported
Feb 20, 12:0012.7S 146.4ENot reported
Feb 20, 18:0012.5S 145.5ENot reported
Feb 21, 00:0012.5S 144.3ENot reported
Feb 21, 06:0012.9S 142.5ENot reported
Feb 21, 12:0013.6S 140.6ENot reported
Feb 21, 18:0014.5S 138.8ENot reported
Feb 22, 00:0015.3S 137.2ENot reported
Feb 22, 06:0015.8S 136.2ENot reported
Feb 22, 12:0016.2S 135.3ENot reported
Feb 22, 18:0016.5S 134.3ENot reported
Feb 23, 00:0016.6S 133.2ENot reported
Feb 23, 06:0016.4S 132.0ENot reported
Feb 23, 12:0015.8S 130.8ENot reported
Feb 23, 18:0014.8S 129.5ENot reported
Feb 24, 00:0013.8S 128.3ENot reported
Feb 24, 06:0013.3S 127.5ENot reported
Feb 24, 12:0012.9S 126.9ENot reported
Feb 24, 18:0012.3S 126.2ENot reported
Feb 25, 00:0011.9S 125.3ENot reported
Feb 25, 06:0011.8S 124.1ENot reported
Feb 25, 12:0012.0S 122.8ENot reported
Feb 25, 18:0012.3S 121.7ENot reported
Feb 26, 00:0012.8S 120.6ENot reported
Feb 26, 06:0013.2S 119.6ENot reported
Feb 26, 12:0013.7S 118.7ENot reported
Feb 26, 18:0014.2S 117.9ENot reported
Feb 27, 00:0014.8S 116.9ENot reported
Feb 27, 06:0015.6S 115.4ENot reported
Feb 27, 12:0016.7S 113.8ENot reported
Feb 27, 18:0017.8S 112.2ENot reported
Feb 28, 00:0019.2S 110.8ENot reported
Feb 28, 06:0021.0S 109.8ENot reported
Feb 28, 12:0023.0S 109.4ENot reported
Feb 28, 18:0024.9S 109.3ENot reported
Mar 1, 00:0027.0S 110.0ENot reported
Mar 1, 06:0029.3S 111.5ENot reported
Mar 1, 12:0031.6S 113.7ENot reported
Mar 1, 18:0033.8S 116.3ENot reported
Mar 2, 00:0035.7S 119.4ENot reported
Mar 2, 06:0037.1S 122.8ENot reported
Mar 2, 12:0038.3S 126.6ENot reported
Mar 2, 18:0039.7S 131.1ENot reported
Mar 3, 00:0040.8S 134.9ENot reported
Mar 3, 06:0041.4S 136.8ENot reported
Mar 3, 12:0041.9S 137.7ENot reported
Mar 3, 18:0042.4S 138.8ENot reported
Mar 4, 00:0042.9S 140.2ENot 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.