The 1962 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1962)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between September 11, 1962 and September 17, 1962, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1962 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
September 11, 1962 to September 17, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 172 km (107 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP361962

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
Sep 11, 06:0021.6N 166.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 11, 12:0021.8N 164.9E1008 mbMixed
Sep 11, 18:0022.0N 163.8E1008 mbMixed
Sep 12, 00:0022.0N 162.5E1006 mbMixed
Sep 12, 06:0022.3N 161.4E1004 mbMixed
Sep 12, 12:0022.5N 160.2E1004 mbMixed
Sep 12, 18:0023.2N 158.1E1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0023.2N 157.4E1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0023.4N 156.5E1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0023.6N 155.3E1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 18:0024.2N 153.7E1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0024.8N 152.2E1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:0025.6N 150.7E1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 12:0026.4N 149.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0027.4N 148.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0028.5N 146.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0029.7N 145.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0031.2N 143.9E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0033.2N 143.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0035.5N 142.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0037.0N 143.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0038.5N 145.0E1004 mbMixed
Sep 16, 18:0040.5N 148.4E1006 mbMixed
Sep 17, 00:0042.2N 152.0E1008 mbMixed
Sep 17, 06:0043.1N 155.5E1008 mbMixed
Sep 17, 12:0043.6N 159.2E1014 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1962

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.