The 1943 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1943)

Unnamed tropical depression was tracked in the Western Pacific between August 15, 1943 and September 1, 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
August 15, 1943 to September 1, 1943
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1943227N24125

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
Aug 15, 00:0024.3N 124.6ETropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0024.2N 124.7ETropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0024.0N 124.9ETropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0023.9N 125.3ETropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0023.9N 125.5ETropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0024.0N 125.6ETropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0024.0N 125.8ETropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0024.1N 125.9ETropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0024.4N 126.4ETropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0024.8N 127.0ETropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0025.2N 127.7ETropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0025.6N 128.4ETropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0026.1N 129.2ETropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0026.7N 130.0ETropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0027.4N 130.5ETropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0028.1N 130.8ETropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0028.9N 131.0ETropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0029.6N 130.9ETropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0030.4N 130.5ETropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0031.1N 129.8ETropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0031.6N 129.3ETropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0031.9N 129.1ETropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0032.2N 128.8ETropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0032.4N 128.3ETropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0032.5N 127.9ETropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0032.5N 127.6ETropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0032.3N 127.3ETropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0032.1N 127.0ETropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0031.9N 126.6ETropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0031.6N 126.0ETropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0031.2N 125.4ETropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0030.8N 125.0ETropical storm
Aug 23, 00:0030.4N 124.7ETropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0030.1N 124.5ETropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0029.8N 124.5ETropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0029.6N 124.4ETropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0029.4N 124.6ETropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0029.5N 124.9ETropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0029.6N 125.2ETropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0029.8N 125.5ETropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0030.0N 125.7ETropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0030.3N 125.9ETropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0030.5N 126.1ETropical storm
Aug 25, 18:0030.8N 126.1ETropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0031.2N 126.1ETropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0031.6N 126.0ETropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0032.0N 126.0ENot reported
Aug 26, 18:0032.3N 126.1ENot reported
Aug 27, 00:0032.5N 126.1ENot reported
Aug 27, 06:0032.8N 126.1ENot reported
Aug 27, 12:0033.1N 126.2ENot reported
Aug 27, 18:0033.5N 126.5ENot reported
Aug 28, 00:0034.0N 127.1ENot reported
Aug 28, 06:0034.8N 128.0ENot reported
Aug 28, 12:0035.5N 128.9ENot reported
Aug 28, 18:0036.3N 129.6ENot reported
Aug 29, 00:0037.8N 130.1ENot reported
Aug 29, 06:0039.9N 130.5ENot reported
Aug 29, 12:0041.6N 131.6ENot reported
Aug 29, 18:0042.8N 133.2ENot reported
Aug 30, 00:0043.6N 134.6ENot reported
Aug 30, 06:0044.3N 135.5ENot reported
Aug 30, 12:0044.9N 136.3ENot reported
Aug 30, 18:0045.4N 137.2ENot reported
Aug 31, 00:0046.1N 139.4ENot reported
Aug 31, 06:0047.0N 143.0ENot reported
Aug 31, 12:0048.0N 146.4ENot reported
Aug 31, 18:0049.0N 149.4ENot reported
Sep 1, 00:0049.6N 152.5ENot reported
Sep 1, 06:0049.9N 155.5ENot reported
Sep 1, 12:0050.4N 157.9ENot reported
Sep 1, 18:0051.2N 159.9ENot 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.