The 1842 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1842)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between October 25, 1842 and November 2, 1842, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1842 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
North Indian
Dates
October 25, 1842 to November 2, 1842
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1842298N11080

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 25, 06:0010.9N 79.8ENot reported
Oct 25, 12:0010.8N 78.9ENot reported
Oct 25, 18:0010.8N 77.9ENot reported
Oct 26, 00:0010.8N 76.9ENot reported
Oct 26, 06:0010.8N 75.8ENot reported
Oct 26, 12:0010.9N 74.7ENot reported
Oct 26, 18:0011.0N 73.5ENot reported
Oct 27, 00:0011.1N 72.4ENot reported
Oct 27, 06:0011.3N 71.4ENot reported
Oct 27, 12:0011.3N 70.5ENot reported
Oct 27, 18:0011.5N 69.5ENot reported
Oct 28, 00:0011.6N 68.4ENot reported
Oct 28, 06:0011.7N 67.7ENot reported
Oct 28, 12:0011.8N 67.3ENot reported
Oct 28, 18:0011.8N 66.9ENot reported
Oct 29, 00:0012.0N 66.4ENot reported
Oct 29, 06:0012.0N 66.0ENot reported
Oct 29, 12:0012.1N 65.7ENot reported
Oct 29, 18:0012.1N 65.3ENot reported
Oct 30, 00:0012.2N 64.9ENot reported
Oct 30, 06:0012.2N 64.5ENot reported
Oct 30, 12:0012.3N 64.1ENot reported
Oct 30, 18:0012.4N 63.7ENot reported
Oct 31, 00:0012.5N 63.2ENot reported
Oct 31, 06:0012.7N 62.8ENot reported
Oct 31, 12:0012.8N 62.3ENot reported
Oct 31, 18:0012.9N 61.9ENot reported
Nov 1, 00:0013.0N 61.5ENot reported
Nov 1, 06:0013.1N 61.1ENot reported
Nov 1, 12:0013.2N 60.6ENot reported
Nov 1, 18:0013.4N 60.2ENot reported
Nov 2, 00:0013.5N 59.9ENot reported

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.