The 1958 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1958)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the South Pacific between January 13, 1958 and January 18, 1958.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1958 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
January 13, 1958 to January 18, 1958
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 319 km (198 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH071958

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
Jan 13, 18:0014.1S 161.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0014.5S 161.5E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0014.8S 161.5E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0014.9S 161.8E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0015.1S 162.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0015.6S 161.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0016.0S 160.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0016.3S 160.5E10 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0016.5S 160.5E10 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0016.8S 160.2E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0017.1S 160.0E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0017.6S 159.7E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0018.1S 159.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0018.6S 159.6E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0019.1S 160.1E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0018.7S 160.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0018.0S 161.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0017.4S 161.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0016.9S 161.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0017.0S 162.3E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0017.4S 163.3ETropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 1958

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.