The 1898 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1898)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between December 21, 1897 and December 31, 1897.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1898 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
South Indian
Dates
December 21, 1897 to December 31, 1897
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 130 km (81 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1897355S10063

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
Dec 21, 06:0010.4S 62.5ENot reported
Dec 21, 12:0010.4S 62.5ENot reported
Dec 21, 18:0010.5S 62.4ENot reported
Dec 22, 00:0010.6S 62.2ENot reported
Dec 22, 06:0010.9S 61.7ENot reported
Dec 22, 12:0011.4S 60.9ENot reported
Dec 22, 18:0011.9S 59.9ENot reported
Dec 23, 00:0012.6S 58.7ENot reported
Dec 23, 06:0013.3S 57.6ENot reported
Dec 23, 12:0014.0S 56.6ENot reported
Dec 23, 18:0014.6S 55.6ENot reported
Dec 24, 00:0015.3S 54.7ENot reported
Dec 24, 06:0015.9S 53.9ENot reported
Dec 24, 12:0016.5S 53.1ENot reported
Dec 24, 18:0017.0S 52.4ENot reported
Dec 25, 00:0017.5S 51.8ENot reported
Dec 25, 06:0017.9S 51.3ENot reported
Dec 25, 12:0018.3S 50.9ENot reported
Dec 25, 18:0018.7S 50.6ENot reported
Dec 26, 00:0019.1S 50.4ENot reported
Dec 26, 06:0019.5S 50.3ENot reported
Dec 26, 12:0019.8S 50.2ENot reported
Dec 26, 18:0020.1S 50.2ENot reported
Dec 27, 00:0020.5S 50.4ENot reported
Dec 27, 06:0021.0S 50.6ENot reported
Dec 27, 12:0021.6S 50.9ENot reported
Dec 27, 18:0022.4S 51.3ENot reported
Dec 28, 00:0023.2S 51.9ENot reported
Dec 28, 06:0024.1S 52.6ENot reported
Dec 28, 12:0025.0S 53.3ENot reported
Dec 28, 18:0025.9S 54.2ENot reported
Dec 29, 00:0026.9S 55.2ENot reported
Dec 29, 06:0027.9S 56.5ENot reported
Dec 29, 12:0029.0S 58.3ENot reported
Dec 29, 18:0030.1S 60.4ENot reported
Dec 30, 00:0031.1S 62.4ENot reported
Dec 30, 06:0031.8S 64.0ENot reported
Dec 30, 12:0032.2S 64.9ENot reported
Dec 30, 18:0032.4S 65.3ENot reported
Dec 31, 00:0032.4S 65.2ENot reported
Dec 31, 06:0032.3S 65.0ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1898

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.