The 1908 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1908)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 21, 1908 and March 5, 1908, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1908 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
February 21, 1908 to March 5, 1908
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1908052S13066

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 21, 06:0012.6S 66.3ENot reported
Feb 21, 12:0012.9S 66.0ENot reported
Feb 21, 18:0013.2S 65.8ENot reported
Feb 22, 00:0013.5S 65.5ENot reported
Feb 22, 06:0013.9S 65.2ENot reported
Feb 22, 12:0014.0S 65.0ENot reported
Feb 22, 18:0014.2S 64.9ENot reported
Feb 23, 00:0014.3S 64.7ENot reported
Feb 23, 06:0014.5S 64.5ENot reported
Feb 23, 12:0014.6S 64.3ENot reported
Feb 23, 18:0014.8S 64.1ENot reported
Feb 24, 00:0015.0S 63.8ENot reported
Feb 24, 06:0015.3S 63.5ENot reported
Feb 24, 12:0015.7S 63.0ENot reported
Feb 24, 18:0016.2S 62.4ENot reported
Feb 25, 00:0016.7S 61.8ENot reported
Feb 25, 06:0017.2S 61.4ENot reported
Feb 25, 12:0017.4S 61.1ENot reported
Feb 25, 18:0017.6S 60.9ENot reported
Feb 26, 00:0017.8S 60.6ENot reported
Feb 26, 06:0018.1S 60.4ENot reported
Feb 26, 12:0018.3S 60.1ENot reported
Feb 26, 18:0018.5S 59.8ENot reported
Feb 27, 00:0018.9S 59.5ENot reported
Feb 27, 06:0019.2S 59.2ENot reported
Feb 27, 12:0019.5S 58.8ENot reported
Feb 27, 18:0019.8S 58.5ENot reported
Feb 28, 00:0020.1S 58.2ENot reported
Feb 28, 06:0020.4S 57.8ENot reported
Feb 28, 12:0020.8S 57.4ENot reported
Feb 28, 18:0021.2S 57.0ENot reported
Feb 29, 00:0021.5S 56.6ENot reported
Feb 29, 06:0021.8S 56.3ENot reported
Feb 29, 12:0022.1S 56.0ENot reported
Feb 29, 18:0022.3S 55.8ENot reported
Mar 1, 00:0022.5S 55.6ENot reported
Mar 1, 06:0022.8S 55.3ENot reported
Mar 1, 12:0023.1S 54.9ENot reported
Mar 1, 18:0023.5S 54.4ENot reported
Mar 2, 00:0024.0S 54.0ENot reported
Mar 2, 06:0024.4S 53.6ENot reported
Mar 2, 12:0024.8S 53.2ENot reported
Mar 2, 18:0025.1S 52.8ENot reported
Mar 3, 00:0025.5S 52.3ENot reported
Mar 3, 06:0025.9S 52.1ENot reported
Mar 3, 12:0026.4S 51.9ENot reported
Mar 3, 18:0026.9S 51.9ENot reported
Mar 4, 00:0027.4S 52.0ENot reported
Mar 4, 06:0027.8S 52.2ENot reported
Mar 4, 12:0028.0S 52.5ENot reported
Mar 4, 18:0028.1S 52.9ENot reported
Mar 5, 00:0028.2S 53.3ENot reported
Mar 5, 06:0028.3S 53.7ENot reported

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.