The 1955 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1955)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 10, 1955 and August 12, 1955, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1955 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
August 10, 1955 to August 12, 1955
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1835 km (1140 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1955222N35176

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
Aug 10, 00:0034.6N 175.6E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0035.1N 176.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0035.7N 176.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0036.4N 176.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0037.0N 177.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0038.0N 177.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0038.7N 176.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0039.4N 176.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0040.0N 175.9E1000 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1955

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.