The 1893 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1893)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between November 12, 1893 and November 20, 1893.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1893 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
November 12, 1893 to November 20, 1893
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 38 km (24 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1893316N12073

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
Nov 12, 00:0011.9N 73.0ETropical storm
Nov 12, 06:0012.0N 72.8ETropical storm
Nov 12, 12:0012.2N 72.5ETropical storm
Nov 12, 18:0012.3N 72.2ETropical storm
Nov 13, 00:0012.5N 71.9ETropical storm
Nov 13, 06:0012.5N 71.6ETropical storm
Nov 13, 12:0012.6N 71.4ETropical storm
Nov 13, 18:0012.7N 71.2ETropical storm
Nov 14, 00:0012.9N 71.0ETropical storm
Nov 14, 06:0013.0N 70.7ETropical storm
Nov 14, 12:0013.3N 70.4ETropical storm
Nov 14, 18:0013.4N 70.1ETropical storm
Nov 15, 00:0013.6N 69.7ETropical storm
Nov 15, 06:0013.8N 69.2ETropical storm
Nov 15, 12:0014.1N 68.6ETropical storm
Nov 15, 18:0014.5N 67.9ETropical storm
Nov 16, 00:0014.9N 67.2ETropical storm
Nov 16, 06:0015.2N 66.5ETropical storm
Nov 16, 12:0015.5N 66.0ETropical storm
Nov 16, 18:0015.8N 65.5ETropical storm
Nov 17, 00:0016.2N 65.1ETropical storm
Nov 17, 06:0016.5N 64.9ETropical storm
Nov 17, 12:0016.7N 64.9ETropical storm
Nov 17, 18:0016.8N 64.8ETropical storm
Nov 18, 00:0017.0N 64.8ETropical storm
Nov 18, 06:0017.5N 65.0ETropical storm
Nov 18, 12:0018.0N 65.4ETropical storm
Nov 18, 18:0018.3N 65.9ETropical storm
Nov 19, 00:0018.6N 66.4ETropical storm
Nov 19, 06:0019.1N 67.2ETropical storm
Nov 19, 12:0019.7N 68.1ETropical storm
Nov 19, 18:0020.2N 69.0ETropical storm
Nov 20, 00:0020.6N 69.9ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 1893

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.