The 1908 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1908)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 9, 1908 and February 27, 1908, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
February 9, 1908 to February 27, 1908
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1908040S13056

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
Feb 9, 00:0012.5S 55.7ETropical storm
Feb 9, 06:0012.6S 54.9ETropical storm
Feb 9, 12:0012.7S 54.2ETropical storm
Feb 9, 18:0012.8S 53.4ETropical storm
Feb 10, 00:0013.0S 52.6ETropical storm
Feb 10, 06:0013.1S 52.2ETropical storm
Feb 10, 12:0013.2S 51.7ETropical storm
Feb 10, 18:0013.3S 51.2ETropical storm
Feb 11, 00:0013.3S 50.6ETropical storm
Feb 11, 06:0013.4S 49.9ETropical storm
Feb 11, 12:0013.6S 49.3ETropical storm
Feb 11, 18:0013.7S 48.7ETropical storm
Feb 12, 00:0013.8S 48.2ETropical storm
Feb 12, 06:0014.0S 47.4ETropical storm
Feb 12, 12:0014.3S 46.6ETropical storm
Feb 12, 18:0014.6S 45.9ETropical storm
Feb 13, 00:0014.9S 45.1ETropical storm
Feb 13, 06:0015.0S 44.7ETropical storm
Feb 13, 12:0015.1S 44.4ETropical storm
Feb 13, 18:0015.3S 44.0ETropical storm
Feb 14, 00:0015.5S 43.7ETropical storm
Feb 14, 06:0015.7S 43.4ETropical storm
Feb 14, 12:0015.9S 43.1ETropical storm
Feb 14, 18:0016.1S 42.9ETropical storm
Feb 15, 00:0016.3S 42.7ETropical storm
Feb 15, 06:0016.5S 42.4ETropical storm
Feb 15, 12:0016.8S 42.2ETropical storm
Feb 15, 18:0017.1S 42.1ETropical storm
Feb 16, 00:0017.4S 42.0ETropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0017.7S 41.9ETropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0018.0S 41.8ETropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0018.2S 41.8ETropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0018.4S 41.8ETropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0018.7S 41.8ETropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0019.0S 41.9ETropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0019.3S 41.9ETropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0019.5S 42.0ETropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0020.0S 42.2ETropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0020.5S 42.4ETropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0020.9S 42.6ETropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0021.2S 42.9ETropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0021.4S 43.0ETropical storm
Feb 19, 12:0021.6S 43.2ETropical storm
Feb 19, 18:0021.7S 43.3ETropical storm
Feb 20, 00:0021.8S 43.5ETropical storm
Feb 20, 06:0021.9S 43.6ETropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0022.0S 43.7ETropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0022.1S 43.9ETropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0022.2S 44.1ETropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0022.3S 44.2ETropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0022.3S 44.4ETropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0022.4S 44.6ETropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0022.4S 44.9ETropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0022.4S 45.1ETropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0022.5S 45.2ETropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0022.6S 45.3ETropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0022.7S 45.3ETropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0022.7S 45.5ETropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0022.8S 45.6ETropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0022.9S 45.7ETropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0023.0S 45.8ETropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0023.1S 45.9ETropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0023.3S 46.0ETropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0023.5S 46.0ETropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0023.7S 46.1ETropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0023.9S 46.2ETropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0024.0S 46.4ETropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0024.2S 46.5ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0024.4S 46.7ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0024.5S 46.8ETropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0024.7S 47.0ETropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0024.8S 47.1ETropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0024.9S 47.2ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1908

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.