The 2003 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2003)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between October 10, 2003 and October 13, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 10, 2003 to October 13, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP192003

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Oct 10, 00:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 10, 00:0025.7N 130.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 06:0025.9N 131.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 12:0026.2N 131.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 18:0026.9N 131.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 00:0027.7N 131.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 06:0028.4N 130.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 12:0029.1N 129.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 11, 18:0029.6N 129.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 00:0030.3N 129.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 06:0031.1N 130.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0032.1N 131.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 18:0033.0N 133.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 13, 00:0034.0N 135.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression

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.