The 1962 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1962)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between September 22, 1962 and September 28, 1962, and made landfall.

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 22, 1962 to September 28, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP371962

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 22, 12:0012.0N 133.0ETropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0011.5N 129.2ETropical depression
Sep 23, 00:0011.4N 128.4ETropical depression
Sep 23, 06:0011.6N 127.3ETropical depression
Sep 23, 12:0012.3N 126.4ETropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0013.1N 125.4ETropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0013.9N 124.2ETropical depression
Sep 24, 06:0014.4N 123.1ETropical depression
Sep 24, 12:0014.5N 122.1ETropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0014.5N 120.9ETropical depression
Sep 25, 00:0014.7N 119.3ETropical depression
Sep 25, 06:0015.4N 118.0ETropical depression
Sep 25, 12:0015.9N 116.3ETropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0015.3N 115.1ETropical depression
Sep 26, 00:0014.8N 114.1ETropical depression
Sep 26, 06:0015.1N 112.8ETropical depression
Sep 26, 12:0015.7N 111.1ETropical depression
Sep 26, 18:0016.2N 109.5ETropical depression
Sep 27, 00:0016.5N 108.0ETropical depression
Sep 27, 06:0016.7N 106.7ETropical depression
Sep 27, 12:0018.0N 106.2EMixed
Sep 27, 18:0018.2N 104.4ETropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0018.5N 102.8ETropical storm

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.