The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1943)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between May 11, 1943 and May 20, 1943, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1943 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
May 11, 1943 to May 20, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1943131N10134

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
May 11, 00:0010.0N 133.6ETropical storm
May 11, 06:0010.2N 132.8ETropical storm
May 11, 12:0010.5N 132.0ETropical storm
May 11, 18:0010.8N 131.3ETropical storm
May 12, 00:0011.1N 130.7ETropical storm
May 12, 06:0011.4N 130.2ETropical storm
May 12, 12:0011.6N 129.7ETropical storm
May 12, 18:0011.8N 129.2ETropical storm
May 13, 00:0012.0N 128.7ETropical storm
May 13, 06:0012.1N 128.3ETropical storm
May 13, 12:0012.2N 127.9ETropical storm
May 13, 18:0012.3N 127.4ETropical storm
May 14, 00:0012.3N 127.0ETropical storm
May 14, 06:0012.4N 126.7ETropical storm
May 14, 12:0012.5N 126.3ETropical storm
May 14, 18:0012.6N 125.9ETropical storm
May 15, 00:0012.9N 125.3ETropical storm
May 15, 06:0013.5N 124.7ETropical storm
May 15, 12:0014.2N 123.9ETropical storm
May 15, 18:0014.9N 123.1ETropical storm
May 16, 00:0015.6N 123.0ETropical storm
May 16, 06:0016.1N 123.6ETropical storm
May 16, 12:0016.5N 124.0ETropical storm
May 16, 18:0016.9N 124.0ETropical storm
May 17, 00:0017.4N 124.0ETropical storm
May 17, 06:0018.2N 124.1ETropical storm
May 17, 12:0018.9N 124.1ETropical storm
May 17, 18:0019.6N 124.1ETropical storm
May 18, 00:0020.6N 124.6ETropical storm
May 18, 06:0021.9N 125.5ETropical storm
May 18, 12:0022.9N 126.4ETropical storm
May 18, 18:0023.6N 127.4ETropical storm
May 19, 00:0025.1N 129.2ETropical storm
May 19, 06:0027.1N 131.7ETropical storm
May 19, 12:0028.9N 134.3ETropical storm
May 19, 18:0030.3N 137.0ETropical storm
May 20, 00:0031.0N 140.5ETropical storm
May 20, 06:0031.3N 144.5ETropical storm
May 20, 12:0032.0N 148.2ETropical storm
May 20, 18:0033.4N 151.5ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1943

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.