The 2003 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2003)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the Western Pacific between August 19, 2003 and August 21, 2003.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2003 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
August 19, 2003 to August 21, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 80 km (50 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2003231N20118

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 19, 06:0019.5N 118.3ETropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0019.7N 118.0ETropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0019.9N 117.7ETropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0020.1N 117.3ETropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0020.5N 117.0ETropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0020.8N 116.8ETropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0021.3N 116.3ETropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0022.0N 116.0ETropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 2003

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.