The 1971 season

Tropical Depression Lucy (1971)

Tropical Depression Lucy peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between July 20, 1971 and July 21, 1971.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Lucy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1971 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
July 20, 1971 to July 21, 1971
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 15 km (9 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1971201N24120

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 20, 00:0023.5N 119.8ETropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0023.6N 119.9ETropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0023.9N 120.0ETropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0024.2N 120.1ETropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0024.9N 120.5ETropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0025.5N 120.8ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1971

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.