The 1929 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1929)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between April 25, 1929 and April 28, 1929.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1929 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
April 25, 1929 to April 28, 1929
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 58 km (36 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1929115N08130

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
Apr 25, 00:008.5N 129.9ETropical storm
Apr 25, 06:008.9N 129.0ETropical storm
Apr 25, 12:009.5N 128.1ETropical storm
Apr 25, 18:0010.1N 127.4ETropical storm
Apr 26, 00:0010.9N 126.8ETropical storm
Apr 26, 06:0011.7N 126.3ETropical storm
Apr 26, 12:0012.7N 125.9ETropical storm
Apr 26, 18:0013.8N 125.5ETropical storm
Apr 27, 00:0014.8N 125.4ETropical storm
Apr 27, 06:0015.9N 125.6ETropical storm
Apr 27, 12:0016.8N 125.9ETropical storm
Apr 27, 18:0017.6N 126.5ETropical storm
Apr 28, 00:0018.3N 127.1ENot reported
Apr 28, 06:0019.0N 127.9ENot reported
Apr 28, 12:0019.6N 128.7ENot reported
Apr 28, 18:0020.1N 129.6ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1929

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.