The 1898 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1898)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between October 9, 1898 and October 15, 1898, and made landfall.

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
North Indian
Dates
October 9, 1898 to October 15, 1898
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1898282N13085

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 9, 00:0013.2N 85.1ETropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0013.3N 85.0ETropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0013.3N 84.9ETropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0013.3N 84.4ETropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0013.4N 83.8ETropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0013.7N 83.2ETropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0014.2N 82.7ETropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0014.9N 82.0ETropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0015.5N 81.3ETropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0016.1N 80.8ETropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0016.7N 80.8ETropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0017.2N 81.3ETropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0017.7N 81.9ETropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0018.1N 82.6ETropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0018.6N 83.2ETropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0019.0N 83.8ETropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0019.4N 84.3ETropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0019.9N 84.8ETropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0020.6N 85.4ETropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0021.4N 85.9ETropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0022.2N 86.4ETropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0022.9N 86.9ETropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0023.6N 87.6ETropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0024.1N 88.4ETropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0024.6N 89.4ETropical storm

Other North 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.