The 1968 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1968)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 14, 1968 and July 14, 1968.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1968 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 14, 1968 to July 14, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1232 km (766 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1968196N15220

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
Jul 14, 06:0015.0N 140.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 14, 12:0015.0N 142.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 14, 18:0015.0N 144.2W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1968

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.