The 1949 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1949)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between July 10, 1948 and July 16, 1948, 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
South Pacific
Dates
July 10, 1948 to July 16, 1948
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH011949

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 10, 12:0025.2S 152.9ETropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0025.2S 153.0ETropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0025.3S 153.1ETropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0025.4S 153.3ETropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0025.6S 153.5ETropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0025.8S 153.7ETropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0026.1S 153.9ETropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0026.4S 154.1ETropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0026.8S 154.3ETropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0027.3S 154.4ETropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0027.7S 154.3ETropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0028.0S 154.2ETropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0028.2S 154.0ETropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0028.3S 153.6ETropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0028.5S 153.3ETropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0028.7S 154.0ETropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0029.0S 154.9ETropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0029.2S 155.3ETropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0029.8S 155.7ETropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0030.8S 156.0ETropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0031.9S 156.2ETropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0032.9S 156.1ETropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0034.0S 155.8ETropical storm

Other South 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.