The 1884 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1884)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between July 18, 1884 and July 27, 1884, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1884 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
July 18, 1884 to July 27, 1884
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1884200N21089

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
Jul 18, 00:0020.5N 88.7ETropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0020.6N 88.6ETropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0020.7N 88.5ETropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0020.8N 88.4ETropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0020.8N 88.2ETropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0020.8N 88.0ETropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0020.9N 87.8ETropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0021.0N 87.7ETropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0021.1N 87.6ETropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0021.1N 87.5ETropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0021.2N 87.3ETropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0021.2N 87.2ETropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0021.3N 87.0ETropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0021.3N 86.9ETropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0021.4N 86.7ETropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0021.4N 86.6ETropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0021.5N 86.6ETropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0021.7N 86.0ETropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0021.9N 85.3ETropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0022.1N 84.7ETropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0022.2N 84.1ETropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0022.3N 83.5ETropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0022.3N 82.9ETropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0022.3N 82.4ETropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0022.4N 82.0ETropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0022.5N 81.7ETropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0022.7N 81.4ETropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0022.8N 81.1ETropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0022.9N 80.8ETropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0023.3N 80.3ETropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0023.9N 79.7ETropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0024.4N 79.2ETropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0025.0N 78.7ETropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0025.3N 78.4ETropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0025.6N 78.1ETropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0025.9N 77.7ETropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0026.3N 77.4ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 1884

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.