The 1971 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1971)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Western Pacific between September 13, 1971 and September 17, 1971.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
September 13, 1971 to September 17, 1971
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 779 km (484 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP371971

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 13, 00:0025.0N 162.0EDisturbance
Sep 13, 06:0025.8N 161.2EDisturbance
Sep 13, 12:0026.4N 160.0ETropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0025.9N 156.9E25 ktTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0026.9N 157.0ETropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0027.1N 154.9ETropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0027.8N 152.7ETropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0028.8N 151.0ETropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0030.0N 149.5ETropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0031.4N 148.7ETropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0032.4N 148.6ETropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0033.2N 148.9ETropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0034.0N 149.6EExtratropical
Sep 16, 06:0035.8N 152.9EExtratropical
Sep 16, 12:0037.3N 156.3EExtratropical
Sep 16, 18:0038.0N 159.9EExtratropical
Sep 17, 00:0038.7N 163.4EExtratropical
Sep 17, 06:0039.2N 167.6EExtratropical
Sep 17, 12:0039.9N 171.5EExtratropical

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.