The 1997 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1997)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 13, 1997 and August 18, 1997.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1997 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 13, 1997 to August 18, 1997
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 2102 km (1306 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP161997

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 13, 00:009.3N 174.3W15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 06:009.6N 174.8W15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 12:009.9N 175.3W15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 18:0010.1N 175.7W15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 00:0010.2N 176.2W15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 06:0010.4N 176.7W15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 12:0010.7N 177.4W15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 18:0011.0N 178.1W15 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 00:0011.3N 178.8W15 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 06:0011.6N 179.3W15 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 12:0012.0N 180.0W15 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 18:0012.4N 179.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 00:0012.7N 178.8E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 06:0013.1N 178.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 12:0013.6N 177.6E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 18:0014.3N 176.8E15 ktNot reported
Aug 17, 00:0014.8N 175.7E20 ktNot reported
Aug 17, 06:0015.4N 174.3E20 ktNot reported
Aug 17, 12:0016.1N 172.9E25 ktNot reported
Aug 17, 18:0016.7N 171.7E30 ktNot reported
Aug 18, 00:0017.2N 170.4E30 ktNot reported
Aug 18, 06:0017.3N 169.2E30 ktNot reported
Aug 18, 12:0017.2N 168.3E30 ktNot reported
Aug 18, 18:0016.8N 167.6E25 ktNot reported

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1997

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.