The 2002 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2002)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between November 14, 2002 and November 16, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 1006 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2002 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
November 14, 2002 to November 16, 2002
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1006 mb (29.71 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 708 km (440 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP162002

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 14, 00:0015.1N 109.9W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 06:0015.2N 111.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 12:0015.7N 111.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 18:0016.3N 111.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 00:0016.2N 112.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 06:0015.9N 113.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 12:0015.6N 113.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 15, 18:0015.2N 114.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 00:0014.9N 115.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 06:0014.7N 116.7W20 kt1007 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2002

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.