The 1950 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1950)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between March 4, 1950 and March 13, 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
March 4, 1950 to March 13, 1950
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH171950

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
Mar 4, 12:0014.3S 166.0ETropical storm
Mar 4, 18:0014.9S 166.4ETropical storm
Mar 5, 00:0015.4S 166.8ETropical storm
Mar 5, 06:0015.8S 167.2ETropical storm
Mar 5, 12:0016.2S 167.7ETropical storm
Mar 5, 18:0016.5S 167.9ETropical storm
Mar 6, 00:0016.8S 168.2ETropical storm
Mar 6, 06:0017.0S 169.1ETropical storm
Mar 6, 12:0017.2S 170.0ETropical storm
Mar 6, 18:0017.2S 171.0ETropical storm
Mar 7, 00:0017.0S 171.9ETropical storm
Mar 7, 06:0016.6S 172.4ETropical storm
Mar 7, 12:0016.2S 172.8ETropical storm
Mar 7, 18:0016.0S 173.4ETropical storm
Mar 8, 00:0016.0S 174.0ETropical storm
Mar 8, 06:0016.5S 174.5ETropical storm
Mar 8, 12:0017.1S 175.0ETropical storm
Mar 8, 18:0017.4S 175.3ETropical storm
Mar 9, 00:0017.7S 174.9ETropical storm
Mar 9, 06:0018.2S 173.9ETropical storm
Mar 9, 12:0018.7S 172.9ETropical storm
Mar 9, 18:0018.8S 171.9ETropical storm
Mar 10, 00:0019.0S 171.0ETropical storm
Mar 10, 06:0019.5S 170.5ETropical storm
Mar 10, 12:0020.0S 170.4ETropical storm
Mar 10, 18:0020.5S 170.3ETropical storm
Mar 11, 00:0021.0S 170.8ETropical storm
Mar 11, 06:0021.3S 171.9ETropical storm
Mar 11, 12:0021.6S 173.0ETropical storm
Mar 11, 18:0022.1S 173.8ETropical storm
Mar 12, 00:0022.7S 175.0ETropical storm
Mar 12, 06:0023.6S 177.2ETropical storm
Mar 12, 12:0024.5S 179.6ETropical storm
Mar 12, 18:0025.0S 178.1WTropical storm
Mar 13, 00:0025.3S 175.9WTropical 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.