The 2012 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2012)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the Western Pacific between November 12, 2012 and November 15, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 1004 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
November 12, 2012 to November 15, 2012
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP252012

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 12, 00:006.5N 118.1EDisturbance
Nov 12, 06:006.8N 117.9E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Nov 12, 12:007.3N 117.0E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Nov 12, 18:007.7N 116.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 00:008.1N 114.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 06:008.5N 113.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 12:008.6N 112.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 13, 18:008.6N 110.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 00:008.0N 109.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 06:008.6N 108.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Nov 14, 12:008.7N 108.4ETropical storm
Nov 14, 18:009.0N 107.8ETropical storm
Nov 15, 00:009.3N 107.4ETropical storm
Nov 15, 06:009.8N 107.1ETropical storm
Nov 15, 12:0010.7N 106.8EMixed
Nov 15, 18:0011.8N 106.6EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 2012

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.