The 1933 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1933)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between October 12, 1933 and October 20, 1933.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1933 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 12, 1933 to October 20, 1933
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 182 km (113 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1933285N08138

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 12, 00:008.3N 138.1ENot reported
Oct 12, 06:008.6N 137.0ENot reported
Oct 12, 12:009.1N 135.8ENot reported
Oct 12, 18:009.7N 134.5ENot reported
Oct 13, 00:0010.3N 133.5ENot reported
Oct 13, 06:0010.8N 132.7ENot reported
Oct 13, 12:0011.3N 132.1ENot reported
Oct 13, 18:0011.8N 131.5ENot reported
Oct 14, 00:0012.2N 131.1ENot reported
Oct 14, 06:0012.5N 130.8ENot reported
Oct 14, 12:0012.7N 130.7ENot reported
Oct 14, 18:0013.0N 130.6ENot reported
Oct 15, 00:0013.3N 130.5ETropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0013.6N 130.3ETropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0013.9N 130.2ETropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0014.2N 130.1ETropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0014.9N 129.9ETropical storm
Oct 16, 06:0016.2N 129.6ETropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0017.5N 129.3ETropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0018.6N 129.0ETropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0019.5N 128.7ETropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0020.1N 128.5ETropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0020.6N 128.3ETropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0021.1N 128.0ETropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0021.5N 127.6ETropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0021.8N 127.2ETropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0022.1N 126.7ETropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0022.2N 126.2ETropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0022.4N 125.6ETropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0022.7N 125.1ETropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0023.1N 124.6ETropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0023.7N 123.9ETropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0024.8N 123.8ETropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0026.5N 124.6ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1933

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.