The 1928 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1928)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between April 16, 1928 and April 25, 1928, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1928 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
April 16, 1928 to April 25, 1928
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1928107S16061

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
Apr 16, 06:0015.8S 60.6ENot reported
Apr 16, 12:0015.8S 60.6ENot reported
Apr 16, 18:0015.9S 60.5ENot reported
Apr 17, 00:0015.9S 60.4ENot reported
Apr 17, 06:0016.0S 60.0ETropical storm
Apr 17, 12:0016.2S 59.2ETropical storm
Apr 17, 18:0016.4S 58.5ETropical storm
Apr 18, 00:0016.7S 57.8ETropical storm
Apr 18, 06:0017.0S 57.0ETropical storm
Apr 18, 12:0017.5S 56.0ETropical storm
Apr 18, 18:0018.1S 54.9ETropical storm
Apr 19, 00:0018.6S 53.8ETropical storm
Apr 19, 06:0019.0S 52.6ETropical storm
Apr 19, 12:0019.4S 51.6ETropical storm
Apr 19, 18:0019.8S 50.5ETropical storm
Apr 20, 00:0020.2S 49.4ETropical storm
Apr 20, 06:0020.7S 48.4ETropical storm
Apr 20, 12:0021.0S 48.1ETropical storm
Apr 20, 18:0021.2S 48.0ETropical storm
Apr 21, 00:0021.5S 47.9ETropical storm
Apr 21, 06:0021.7S 48.0ETropical storm
Apr 21, 12:0022.0S 48.1ETropical storm
Apr 21, 18:0022.3S 48.4ETropical storm
Apr 22, 00:0022.5S 48.7ETropical storm
Apr 22, 06:0022.8S 49.2ETropical storm
Apr 22, 12:0023.2S 50.0ETropical storm
Apr 22, 18:0023.6S 51.0ETropical storm
Apr 23, 00:0024.0S 51.8ETropical storm
Apr 23, 06:0024.5S 52.6ETropical storm
Apr 23, 12:0024.8S 53.4ETropical storm
Apr 23, 18:0025.2S 54.1ETropical storm
Apr 24, 00:0025.6S 54.7ETropical storm
Apr 24, 06:0026.0S 55.4ETropical storm
Apr 24, 12:0026.5S 55.7ENot reported
Apr 24, 18:0026.6S 55.9ENot reported
Apr 25, 00:0026.6S 56.0ENot reported
Apr 25, 06:0026.6S 56.1ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1928

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.