The 1927 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1927)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 21, 1927 and August 26, 1927.

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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 21, 1927 to August 26, 1927
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 659 km (409 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1927233N10144

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
Aug 21, 00:0010.2N 144.0ENot reported
Aug 21, 06:0010.4N 143.0ENot reported
Aug 21, 12:0010.7N 142.1ENot reported
Aug 21, 18:0011.1N 141.3ENot reported
Aug 22, 00:0011.5N 140.7ENot reported
Aug 22, 06:0011.9N 140.5ENot reported
Aug 22, 12:0012.3N 140.2ENot reported
Aug 22, 18:0012.8N 139.9ENot reported
Aug 23, 00:0013.6N 139.6ENot reported
Aug 23, 06:0014.7N 139.5ENot reported
Aug 23, 12:0015.9N 139.4ENot reported
Aug 23, 18:0017.2N 139.3ENot reported
Aug 24, 00:0018.4N 139.3ETropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0019.4N 139.3ETropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0020.4N 139.1ETropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0021.4N 138.9ETropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0022.2N 138.5ETropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0022.7N 138.1ETropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0023.1N 137.5ETropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0023.5N 136.7ETropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0023.8N 135.7ETropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0024.2N 134.5ETropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0024.6N 133.2ETropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0024.9N 131.9ETropical storm

Other Western 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.