The 1902 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1902)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between November 21, 1901 and November 30, 1901.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1902 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
November 21, 1901 to November 30, 1901
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 228 km (142 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1901325S09069

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 21, 06:008.7S 68.8ENot reported
Nov 21, 12:008.9S 68.5ENot reported
Nov 21, 18:009.1S 68.1ENot reported
Nov 22, 00:009.3S 67.8ENot reported
Nov 22, 06:009.5S 67.4ENot reported
Nov 22, 12:009.7S 67.0ENot reported
Nov 22, 18:0010.0S 66.5ENot reported
Nov 23, 00:0010.3S 66.0ENot reported
Nov 23, 06:0010.6S 65.5ENot reported
Nov 23, 12:0010.9S 65.0ENot reported
Nov 23, 18:0011.2S 64.5ENot reported
Nov 24, 00:0011.5S 63.9ENot reported
Nov 24, 06:0011.8S 63.4ENot reported
Nov 24, 12:0012.1S 62.9ENot reported
Nov 24, 18:0012.4S 62.5ENot reported
Nov 25, 00:0012.7S 62.0ENot reported
Nov 25, 06:0013.0S 61.4ENot reported
Nov 25, 12:0013.3S 60.8ENot reported
Nov 25, 18:0013.7S 60.1ENot reported
Nov 26, 00:0014.2S 59.4ENot reported
Nov 26, 06:0014.8S 58.5ENot reported
Nov 26, 12:0015.4S 57.3ENot reported
Nov 26, 18:0016.2S 56.0ENot reported
Nov 27, 00:0017.1S 54.8ENot reported
Nov 27, 06:0018.2S 53.9ENot reported
Nov 27, 12:0019.6S 53.3ENot reported
Nov 27, 18:0021.2S 53.0ENot reported
Nov 28, 00:0022.8S 53.1ENot reported
Nov 28, 06:0024.1S 53.6ENot reported
Nov 28, 12:0025.1S 54.7ENot reported
Nov 28, 18:0025.7S 56.3ENot reported
Nov 29, 00:0026.2S 57.9ENot reported
Nov 29, 06:0026.5S 59.3ENot reported
Nov 29, 12:0026.7S 60.2ENot reported
Nov 29, 18:0026.8S 60.7ENot reported
Nov 30, 00:0026.8S 60.9ENot reported
Nov 30, 06:0026.8S 61.0ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1902

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.