The 1902 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1902)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between October 28, 1902 and November 2, 1902.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
October 28, 1902 to November 2, 1902
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 205 km (127 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1902301N11065

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 28, 00:0010.5N 64.7ETropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0010.4N 64.4ETropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0010.4N 64.0ETropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0010.4N 63.7ETropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0010.4N 63.4ETropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0010.5N 62.7ETropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0010.6N 61.9ETropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0010.7N 61.2ETropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0010.8N 60.5ETropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0010.9N 60.0ETropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0011.1N 59.5ETropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0011.3N 59.1ETropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0011.4N 58.7ETropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0011.8N 58.2ETropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0012.2N 57.8ETropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0012.7N 57.3ETropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0013.2N 56.8ETropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0013.6N 56.4ETropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0014.1N 56.0ETropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0014.5N 55.6ETropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0014.9N 55.3ETropical storm

Other North 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.