The 1950 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1950)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between February 21, 1950 and March 1, 1950, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1950 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
February 21, 1950 to March 1, 1950
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH131950

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
Feb 21, 00:0017.4S 165.8WTropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0017.3S 166.4WTropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0017.3S 166.9WTropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0017.3S 167.3WTropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0017.3S 167.8WTropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0017.3S 168.6WTropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0017.3S 169.4WTropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0017.3S 170.1WTropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0017.3S 170.9WTropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0017.3S 171.9WTropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0017.3S 173.0WTropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0017.3S 173.9WTropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0017.2S 174.9WTropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0017.0S 176.1WTropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0016.8S 177.4WTropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0016.7S 178.5WTropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0016.7S 179.7WTropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0016.7S 179.2ETropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0016.7S 178.0ETropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0016.9S 176.9ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0017.2S 176.3ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0017.6S 176.2ETropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0018.0S 176.1ETropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0018.4S 176.0ETropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0018.8S 176.0ETropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0020.0S 176.3ETropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0021.7S 177.0ETropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0022.7S 177.7ETropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0024.2S 178.7ETropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0026.6S 179.7WTropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0029.0S 178.0WTropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0031.4S 176.7WTropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0033.7S 175.6WTropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 1950

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.