The 1937 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1937)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between June 27, 1937 and July 6, 1937, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1937 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
June 27, 1937 to July 6, 1937
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1937178N23155

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
Jun 27, 00:0022.5N 153.8ENot reported
Jun 27, 06:0022.0N 152.6ENot reported
Jun 27, 12:0021.2N 152.2ENot reported
Jun 27, 18:0020.3N 152.2ENot reported
Jun 28, 00:0020.1N 151.5ENot reported
Jun 28, 06:0020.5N 150.0ENot reported
Jun 28, 12:0020.6N 148.5ENot reported
Jun 28, 18:0020.4N 147.0ENot reported
Jun 29, 00:0020.1N 145.7ENot reported
Jun 29, 06:0019.7N 144.3ENot reported
Jun 29, 12:0019.0N 142.5ENot reported
Jun 29, 18:0018.3N 140.4ENot reported
Jun 30, 00:0018.0N 138.4ENot reported
Jun 30, 06:0018.2N 136.6ENot reported
Jun 30, 12:0018.1N 134.4ETropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0017.8N 132.1ETropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0017.7N 130.1ETropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0017.7N 128.7ETropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0017.8N 127.3ETropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0017.8N 125.9ETropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0018.0N 124.8ETropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0018.4N 123.9ETropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0018.8N 123.0ETropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0019.1N 122.1ETropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0019.4N 121.2ETropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0019.5N 120.4ETropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0020.0N 119.4ETropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0020.9N 118.1ETropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0021.6N 117.4ETropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0022.3N 117.4ETropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0023.5N 116.6ETropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0024.9N 115.3ETropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0025.9N 114.6ETropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0026.5N 114.7ETropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0027.0N 115.6ENot reported
Jul 5, 18:0027.5N 117.2ENot reported
Jul 6, 00:0028.2N 118.2ENot reported
Jul 6, 06:0029.0N 118.4ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1937

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.