The 1938 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1938)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between June 21, 1938 and July 3, 1938, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1938 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 21, 1938 to July 3, 1938
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1938172N18148

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 21, 12:0018.2N 147.3ETropical storm
Jun 21, 18:0018.5N 146.5ETropical storm
Jun 22, 00:0018.9N 146.0ETropical storm
Jun 22, 06:0019.2N 145.5ETropical storm
Jun 22, 12:0019.6N 145.0ETropical storm
Jun 22, 18:0020.2N 144.2ETropical storm
Jun 23, 00:0020.5N 143.6ETropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0020.8N 143.2ETropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0021.1N 142.5ETropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0021.7N 141.7ETropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0022.2N 141.0ETropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0022.7N 140.5ETropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0023.2N 140.0ETropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0023.7N 139.4ETropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0024.3N 138.9ETropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0024.7N 138.7ETropical storm
Jun 25, 12:0025.1N 138.2ETropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0025.3N 137.7ETropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0025.3N 137.3ETropical storm
Jun 26, 06:0025.2N 137.0ETropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0025.0N 136.7ETropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0024.8N 136.1ETropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0024.6N 135.7ETropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0024.6N 135.4ETropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0024.6N 135.0ETropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0024.7N 134.6ETropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0024.9N 134.3ETropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0025.3N 134.2ETropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0025.8N 134.4ETropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0026.5N 134.7ETropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0027.3N 135.3ETropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0028.1N 136.0ETropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0029.1N 136.8ETropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0030.5N 137.8ETropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0032.7N 139.3ETropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0035.6N 141.4ETropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0039.0N 144.5ETropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0042.5N 148.5ETropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0045.1N 152.2ETropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0046.6N 155.0ETropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0048.1N 157.0ENot reported
Jul 1, 18:0049.6N 158.1ENot reported
Jul 2, 00:0050.8N 158.0ENot reported
Jul 2, 06:0051.8N 156.7ENot reported
Jul 2, 12:0051.7N 155.4ENot reported
Jul 2, 18:0050.8N 154.5ENot reported
Jul 3, 00:0050.1N 154.8ENot reported
Jul 3, 06:0049.8N 156.4ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1938

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.