The 2008 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2008)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 23, 2008 and October 27, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 1008 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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
October 23, 2008 to October 27, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1008 mb (29.77 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 446 km (277 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
45 kt (52 mph)
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP172008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 23, 06:0012.3N 104.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0013.0N 104.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 18:0013.8N 105.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 00:0014.4N 105.4W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:0014.9N 105.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:0015.3N 106.4W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 18:0015.7N 106.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 25, 00:0016.1N 107.5W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 25, 06:0016.6N 108.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 25, 12:0016.7N 109.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 25, 18:0016.7N 109.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 26, 00:0016.6N 110.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 26, 06:0016.5N 111.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 26, 12:0016.4N 111.7W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 26, 18:0016.2N 112.6W20 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 27, 00:0016.1N 113.8W20 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 27, 06:0016.0N 115.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 27, 12:0016.0N 116.1W20 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 27, 18:0016.0N 117.4W20 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2008

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.