The 1927 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1927)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between March 30, 1927 and April 2, 1927, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1927 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
March 30, 1927 to April 2, 1927
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 272 km (169 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1927089S15153

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
Mar 30, 00:0014.7S 153.3ENot reported
Mar 30, 06:0015.6S 154.3ENot reported
Mar 30, 12:0016.7S 155.1ENot reported
Mar 30, 18:0018.2S 155.7ETropical storm
Mar 31, 00:0020.0S 156.0ETropical storm
Mar 31, 06:0021.3S 156.2ETropical storm
Mar 31, 12:0022.3S 156.2ETropical storm
Mar 31, 18:0023.0S 156.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 00:0023.9S 156.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 06:0024.9S 156.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 12:0026.1S 156.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 18:0027.3S 156.3E990 mbTropical storm
Apr 2, 00:0028.6S 156.6ETropical storm
Apr 2, 06:0029.8S 157.0ETropical storm
Apr 2, 12:0030.9S 157.5ETropical storm
Apr 2, 18:0032.0S 158.0ETropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 1927

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.