The 1953 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1953)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between June 21, 1953 and July 3, 1953, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1953 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
June 21, 1953 to July 3, 1953
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
WP041953

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
Jun 21, 06:008.0N 142.4EDisturbance
Jun 21, 12:007.7N 140.6E1006 mbMixed
Jun 21, 18:007.8N 138.9E1006 mbMixed
Jun 22, 00:008.1N 137.1E1006 mbMixed
Jun 22, 06:008.9N 135.8E1006 mbMixed
Jun 22, 12:009.6N 134.6E1004 mbMixed
Jun 22, 18:0010.3N 133.5E1004 mbMixed
Jun 23, 00:0010.9N 132.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0011.7N 131.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0011.9N 130.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0012.3N 129.8E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0013.5N 128.2E30 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0014.0N 127.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0014.5N 126.2E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0015.0N 125.2E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0015.2N 123.8E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0015.4N 123.4E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 12:0015.6N 123.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0016.6N 122.2E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0017.2N 120.0E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Jun 26, 06:0017.0N 119.7E1000 mbMixed
Jun 26, 12:0017.2N 119.0E1000 mbMixed
Jun 26, 18:0018.1N 118.6E1000 mbMixed
Jun 27, 00:0019.2N 118.6E999 mbMixed
Jun 27, 06:0019.7N 118.4E999 mbMixed
Jun 27, 12:0020.1N 118.3E998 mbMixed
Jun 27, 18:0020.6N 118.0E998 mbMixed
Jun 28, 00:0021.0N 117.5E998 mbMixed
Jun 28, 06:0021.1N 116.5E998 mbMixed
Jun 28, 12:0021.1N 115.3E998 mbMixed
Jun 28, 18:0020.6N 114.8E998 mbMixed
Jun 29, 00:0019.9N 114.6E996 mbMixed
Jun 29, 06:0019.4N 114.3E996 mbMixed
Jun 29, 12:0019.3N 113.7E994 mbMixed
Jun 29, 18:0019.4N 113.3E994 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0019.6N 112.9E992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0019.7N 112.0E992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0019.8N 111.1E992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0020.2N 110.2E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0020.6N 109.7E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 06:0021.1N 109.0E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 12:0021.4N 108.2E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 18:0021.7N 107.5E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0022.3N 106.6E992 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0022.7N 106.2E992 mbMixed
Jul 2, 12:0022.8N 106.0E994 mbExtratropical
Jul 2, 18:0022.9N 105.9E994 mbExtratropical
Jul 3, 00:0023.0N 105.7E996 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1953

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.