The 1992 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1992)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Western Pacific between October 30, 1992 and November 2, 1992.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 30, 1992 to November 2, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2060 km (1280 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP291992

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
Oct 30, 00:0017.7N 178.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 06:0017.9N 177.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 12:0018.2N 176.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 18:0018.5N 175.1E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 00:0018.7N 174.0E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 06:0018.9N 173.0E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 12:0018.8N 171.9E25 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 18:0018.5N 170.8E25 ktNot reported
Nov 1, 00:0018.2N 169.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 1, 06:0018.5N 167.7E25 ktNot reported
Nov 1, 12:0019.1N 166.1E25 ktNot reported
Nov 1, 18:0019.5N 164.2E25 ktNot reported
Nov 2, 00:0020.0N 162.2E25 ktNot reported
Nov 2, 06:0021.1N 160.6E20 ktNot reported
Nov 2, 12:0022.9N 159.3E20 ktNot reported
Nov 2, 18:0024.9N 158.4E15 ktNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1992

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.