The 2003 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2003)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between October 21, 2003 and October 28, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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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 21, 2003 to October 28, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
WP232003

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 21, 12:009.1N 101.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 18:009.4N 101.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:009.5N 101.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:009.6N 101.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:009.7N 101.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:009.9N 101.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0010.1N 101.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0010.4N 101.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0010.7N 101.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 18:0011.0N 101.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 00:0011.4N 101.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:0011.7N 100.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:0012.1N 100.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 18:0012.5N 99.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 00:0012.4N 98.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 06:0012.5N 97.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 12:0013.1N 96.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 18:0013.2N 95.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 00:0013.2N 94.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 06:0013.3N 93.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 12:0013.4N 92.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 18:0013.6N 91.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 27, 00:0014.0N 90.2E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0014.6N 88.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0015.3N 87.4E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0016.3N 86.0E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0017.5N 84.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0018.2N 84.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 28, 12:0018.7N 83.4E30 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.