The 1994 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1994)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Western Pacific between January 1, 1994 and January 6, 1994, and made landfall.

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
January 1, 1994 to January 6, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP011994

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
Jan 1, 06:005.4N 155.8E20 ktNot reported
Jan 1, 12:005.7N 153.9E20 ktNot reported
Jan 1, 18:006.0N 152.0E20 ktNot reported
Jan 2, 00:006.3N 150.1E20 ktNot reported
Jan 2, 06:006.6N 148.2E25 ktNot reported
Jan 2, 12:006.9N 146.3E25 ktNot reported
Jan 2, 18:007.2N 144.4E25 ktNot reported
Jan 3, 00:007.5N 142.5E25 ktNot reported
Jan 3, 06:007.8N 140.6E25 ktNot reported
Jan 3, 12:008.1N 138.8E25 ktNot reported
Jan 3, 18:008.4N 137.0E25 ktNot reported
Jan 4, 00:008.7N 135.2E25 ktNot reported
Jan 4, 06:009.0N 133.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 4, 12:009.4N 131.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 4, 18:009.8N 130.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 00:0010.3N 128.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 06:0010.9N 127.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 12:0011.6N 125.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 5, 18:0012.4N 124.8E20 ktNot reported
Jan 6, 00:0013.2N 124.1E15 ktNot reported
Jan 6, 06:0014.0N 123.5E15 ktNot reported
Jan 6, 12:0014.7N 122.9E15 ktNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1994

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.