The 1999 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1999)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between July 19, 1999 and July 23, 1999, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1999 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
July 19, 1999 to July 23, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP081999

Radar at RKJK as it neared land, Jul 22, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 19, 12:0024.6N 134.0E20 ktNot reported
Jul 19, 18:0025.4N 134.0E20 ktNot reported
Jul 20, 00:0026.1N 133.7E20 ktNot reported
Jul 20, 06:0027.0N 133.2E20 ktNot reported
Jul 20, 12:0027.7N 132.4E20 ktNot reported
Jul 20, 18:0028.3N 131.5E20 ktNot reported
Jul 21, 00:0028.8N 130.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0029.3N 129.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0029.9N 128.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0030.7N 127.7E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0032.4N 127.5E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0033.7N 126.8E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0035.0N 126.9E20 ktNot reported
Jul 22, 18:0036.8N 129.1E20 ktNot reported
Jul 23, 00:0038.4N 132.3E30 ktNot reported
Jul 23, 06:0040.1N 134.6E30 ktNot reported
Jul 23, 12:0042.7N 137.4E30 ktNot reported
Jul 23, 18:0044.4N 139.2E30 ktNot reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1999

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.