The 1937 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1937)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between November 16, 1937 and November 23, 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
November 16, 1937 to November 23, 1937
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1937320N08136

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
Nov 16, 12:008.4N 135.3ENot reported
Nov 16, 18:008.5N 134.4ENot reported
Nov 17, 00:008.8N 133.1ENot reported
Nov 17, 06:009.1N 131.2ENot reported
Nov 17, 12:009.5N 129.3ETropical storm
Nov 17, 18:0010.0N 127.6ETropical storm
Nov 18, 00:0010.5N 126.0ETropical storm
Nov 18, 06:0011.1N 124.4ETropical storm
Nov 18, 12:0011.7N 122.8ETropical storm
Nov 18, 18:0012.1N 121.0ETropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0012.6N 119.8ETropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0013.0N 119.2ETropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0013.6N 118.8ETropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0014.3N 118.4ETropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0014.9N 118.1ETropical storm
Nov 20, 06:0015.4N 117.8ETropical storm
Nov 20, 12:0015.9N 117.5ETropical storm
Nov 20, 18:0016.5N 117.4ETropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0017.0N 117.4ETropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0017.3N 117.4ETropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0017.6N 117.4ETropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0018.0N 117.2ETropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0018.5N 117.4ETropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0019.2N 118.0ETropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0019.9N 118.6ETropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0020.3N 119.1ETropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0020.7N 120.1ETropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0021.1N 121.5ETropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0021.5N 123.0ENot reported
Nov 23, 18:0021.8N 124.2ENot 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.