The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1943)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between July 17, 1943 and July 25, 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
July 17, 1943 to July 25, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1943198N18140

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
Jul 17, 12:0018.4N 140.0ENot reported
Jul 17, 18:0019.0N 139.5ENot reported
Jul 18, 00:0019.3N 138.9ENot reported
Jul 18, 06:0019.4N 138.1ENot reported
Jul 18, 12:0019.7N 137.3ENot reported
Jul 18, 18:0020.2N 136.4ENot reported
Jul 19, 00:0020.5N 135.9ENot reported
Jul 19, 06:0020.6N 135.7ENot reported
Jul 19, 12:0020.7N 135.6ENot reported
Jul 19, 18:0020.9N 135.5ENot reported
Jul 20, 00:0021.2N 135.5ENot reported
Jul 20, 06:0021.8N 135.4ENot reported
Jul 20, 12:0022.1N 135.4ENot reported
Jul 20, 18:0022.3N 135.6ENot reported
Jul 21, 00:0022.9N 135.6ENot reported
Jul 21, 06:0023.8N 135.6ENot reported
Jul 21, 12:0024.7N 135.6ENot reported
Jul 21, 18:0025.4N 135.5ENot reported
Jul 22, 00:0026.1N 135.4ENot reported
Jul 22, 06:0026.9N 135.2ENot reported
Jul 22, 12:0027.6N 134.7ENot reported
Jul 22, 18:0028.1N 134.0ENot reported
Jul 23, 00:0028.6N 133.5ENot reported
Jul 23, 06:0029.1N 133.3ENot reported
Jul 23, 12:0029.6N 133.2ENot reported
Jul 23, 18:0030.1N 133.2ENot reported
Jul 24, 00:0031.1N 132.9ENot reported
Jul 24, 06:0032.7N 132.6ENot reported
Jul 24, 12:0034.7N 132.7ENot reported
Jul 24, 18:0037.0N 133.3ENot reported
Jul 25, 00:0038.7N 133.6ENot reported
Jul 25, 06:0039.8N 133.7ENot reported
Jul 25, 12:0040.7N 133.5ENot reported
Jul 25, 18:0041.6N 133.2ENot reported

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.