The 1941 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1941)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between December 22, 1941 and December 30, 1941.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1941 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
December 22, 1941 to December 30, 1941
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 77 km (48 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1941357N06150

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
Dec 22, 12:006.0N 150.0ETropical storm
Dec 22, 18:006.0N 148.8ETropical storm
Dec 23, 00:006.1N 147.6ETropical storm
Dec 23, 06:006.2N 146.5ETropical storm
Dec 23, 12:006.3N 145.5ETropical storm
Dec 23, 18:006.4N 144.5ETropical storm
Dec 24, 00:006.5N 143.4ETropical storm
Dec 24, 06:006.7N 142.1ETropical storm
Dec 24, 12:006.9N 140.6ETropical storm
Dec 24, 18:007.2N 139.2ETropical storm
Dec 25, 00:007.6N 137.7ETropical storm
Dec 25, 06:008.1N 136.1ETropical storm
Dec 25, 12:008.6N 134.5ETropical storm
Dec 25, 18:009.2N 132.7ETropical storm
Dec 26, 00:009.9N 131.1ETropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0010.5N 129.9ETropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0011.1N 129.0ETropical storm
Dec 26, 18:0011.7N 128.1ETropical storm
Dec 27, 00:0012.3N 127.3ETropical storm
Dec 27, 06:0012.8N 126.4ETropical storm
Dec 27, 12:0013.4N 125.7ETropical storm
Dec 27, 18:0014.1N 125.1ETropical storm
Dec 28, 00:0014.8N 124.8ETropical storm
Dec 28, 06:0015.7N 124.8ETropical storm
Dec 28, 12:0016.5N 125.2ETropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0017.1N 125.5ETropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0017.8N 126.5ENot reported
Dec 29, 06:0018.7N 128.5ENot reported
Dec 29, 12:0019.5N 131.0ENot reported
Dec 29, 18:0019.8N 133.5ENot reported
Dec 30, 00:0019.8N 136.0ENot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1941

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.