The 1949 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1949)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between July 30, 1949 and August 4, 1949, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1949 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 30, 1949 to August 4, 1949
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1949211N07139

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 30, 06:006.8N 138.5EDisturbance
Jul 30, 12:006.9N 137.4EDisturbance
Jul 30, 18:007.1N 136.3EDisturbance
Jul 31, 00:007.5N 135.2EDisturbance
Jul 31, 06:007.9N 134.3EDisturbance
Jul 31, 12:008.4N 133.4EDisturbance
Jul 31, 18:009.0N 132.5EDisturbance
Aug 1, 00:009.7N 131.7ETropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0010.6N 130.8ETropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0011.3N 130.1ETropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0012.0N 129.2ETropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0012.5N 128.3ETropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0012.8N 127.5ETropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0013.1N 126.8ETropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0013.3N 126.1EDisturbance
Aug 3, 00:0013.6N 125.4EDisturbance
Aug 3, 06:0013.8N 124.8EDisturbance
Aug 3, 12:0014.2N 124.0EDisturbance
Aug 3, 18:0014.4N 123.2EDisturbance
Aug 4, 00:0014.6N 122.4EDisturbance
Aug 4, 06:0014.7N 121.3EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1949

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.