Unnamed tropical storm (1956)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

March 24, 1956 to March 31, 1956

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)

Lowest pressure

990 mb (29.23 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

2.5

Identifier

SH281956

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.

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• Tropical Depression AgnesSouth Pacific · 1956Tropical Depression961 mb
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• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1956Tropical Depression20 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1956Tropical Depression995 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1956Tropical Depression

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.

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.