The 1985 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1985)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 8, 1985 and August 15, 1985, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1985 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
August 8, 1985 to August 15, 1985
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1985221N18111

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
Aug 8, 12:0017.5N 110.5EDisturbance
Aug 8, 18:0017.5N 110.5EDisturbance
Aug 9, 00:0017.9N 111.1EDisturbance
Aug 9, 06:0018.2N 111.4EDisturbance
Aug 9, 12:0018.6N 111.8EDisturbance
Aug 9, 18:0019.3N 112.2EDisturbance
Aug 10, 00:0019.8N 112.6ETropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0020.1N 112.9ETropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0020.4N 113.0ETropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0020.7N 112.6ETropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0020.3N 112.3ETropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0019.8N 112.9ETropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0019.9N 113.3ETropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0020.1N 113.6ETropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0020.1N 113.6ETropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0020.5N 113.7ETropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0020.8N 113.6ETropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0021.1N 113.4ETropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0021.1N 113.4ETropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0021.2N 113.1ETropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0021.4N 112.8ETropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0021.4N 112.8ETropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0021.8N 112.6EDisturbance
Aug 14, 06:0022.1N 112.0EDisturbance
Aug 14, 12:0021.8N 111.2EDisturbance
Aug 14, 18:0022.0N 110.2EDisturbance
Aug 15, 00:0022.2N 109.2EDisturbance
Aug 15, 06:0022.3N 108.0EDisturbance
Aug 15, 12:0022.0N 107.0EDisturbance
Aug 15, 18:0021.5N 106.0EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1985

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.