The 1998 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1998)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 16, 1998 and August 19, 1998.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1998 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 16, 1998 to August 19, 1998
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 519 km (322 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
CP011998

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 16, 00:0013.1N 142.3W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 16, 06:0013.2N 142.9W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 16, 12:0013.4N 143.7W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 16, 18:0013.6N 144.6W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 17, 00:0013.8N 145.4W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 17, 06:0014.0N 146.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 17, 12:0014.2N 146.9W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 17, 18:0014.3N 147.8W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 18, 00:0014.4N 148.8W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 18, 06:0014.4N 149.9W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0014.4N 151.2W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0014.4N 152.7W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 19, 00:0014.4N 154.5W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1998

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.