The 1928 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1928)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between October 22, 1928 and October 30, 1928.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1928 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
October 22, 1928 to October 30, 1928
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 85 km (53 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1928296N14141

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
Oct 22, 00:0014.3N 140.7ENot reported
Oct 22, 06:0014.3N 139.6ENot reported
Oct 22, 12:0014.3N 138.5ENot reported
Oct 22, 18:0014.3N 137.5ENot reported
Oct 23, 00:0014.3N 136.5ENot reported
Oct 23, 06:0014.3N 135.4ENot reported
Oct 23, 12:0014.3N 134.5ENot reported
Oct 23, 18:0014.3N 133.8ENot reported
Oct 24, 00:0014.2N 132.9ENot reported
Oct 24, 06:0014.0N 131.8ENot reported
Oct 24, 12:0013.9N 130.7ENot reported
Oct 24, 18:0014.0N 129.6ENot reported
Oct 25, 00:0014.0N 128.8ENot reported
Oct 25, 06:0014.0N 128.4ENot reported
Oct 25, 12:0014.0N 128.1ENot reported
Oct 25, 18:0014.1N 127.6ENot reported
Oct 26, 00:0014.1N 127.2ENot reported
Oct 26, 06:0014.1N 126.7ENot reported
Oct 26, 12:0014.1N 126.2ENot reported
Oct 26, 18:0014.1N 125.5ENot reported
Oct 27, 00:0014.3N 125.1ENot reported
Oct 27, 06:0014.5N 124.9ENot reported
Oct 27, 12:0014.8N 124.9ENot reported
Oct 27, 18:0015.0N 124.9ENot reported
Oct 28, 00:0015.5N 125.5ENot reported
Oct 28, 06:0016.4N 126.5ENot reported
Oct 28, 12:0017.4N 127.8ENot reported
Oct 28, 18:0018.6N 129.1ENot reported
Oct 29, 00:0019.8N 130.0ENot reported
Oct 29, 06:0021.2N 130.5ENot reported
Oct 29, 12:0022.5N 130.8ENot reported
Oct 29, 18:0023.4N 131.1ENot reported
Oct 30, 00:0024.7N 132.0ENot reported
Oct 30, 06:0026.2N 133.5ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1928

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.