The 1963 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1963)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Pacific between November 10, 1962 and November 15, 1962.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1963 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
November 10, 1962 to November 15, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 108 km (67 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH031963

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
Nov 10, 00:0019.9S 166.2ETropical storm
Nov 10, 06:0021.8S 167.9ETropical storm
Nov 10, 12:0023.0S 169.6ETropical storm
Nov 10, 18:0023.7S 171.2ETropical storm
Nov 11, 00:0024.2S 172.8ETropical storm
Nov 11, 06:0024.6S 174.9ETropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0025.0S 177.0ETropical storm
Nov 11, 18:0025.6S 178.6ETropical storm
Nov 12, 00:0026.2S 179.7ETropical storm
Nov 12, 06:0027.0S 179.6WTropical storm
Nov 12, 12:0027.8S 179.0WTropical storm
Nov 12, 18:0028.4S 178.5WTropical storm
Nov 13, 00:0028.9S 178.0WTropical storm
Nov 13, 06:0029.2S 177.3WTropical storm
Nov 13, 12:0029.5S 176.6WTropical storm
Nov 13, 18:0029.8S 176.2WTropical storm
Nov 14, 00:0030.3S 175.9WTropical storm
Nov 14, 06:0031.2S 175.0WTropical storm
Nov 14, 12:0032.3S 174.1WTropical storm
Nov 14, 18:0033.4S 173.6WTropical storm
Nov 15, 00:0034.6S 173.5WTropical storm

Other South Pacific storms of 1963

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.