Unnamed tropical depression (1959)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

March 5, 1959 to March 17, 1959

Peak strength

Tropical Depression

Lowest pressure

988 mb (29.18 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 49 km (30 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.0

Identifier

SH251959

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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• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1959Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression ConnieSouth Pacific · 1959Tropical Depression948 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1959Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1959Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1959Tropical Depression990 mb

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.