Unnamed tropical storm (1963)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

May 3, 1963 to May 9, 1963

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)

Lowest pressure

1000 mb (29.53 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 235 km (146 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.7

Identifier

SH491963

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 · 1963Tropical Depression30 kt · 996 mb
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• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1963Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1963Tropical Storm35 kt · 1000 mb
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• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1963Tropical Storm50 kt · 986 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1963Tropical Depression20 kt · 1003 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.