The 1932 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1932)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 10, 1932 and February 16, 1932.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1932 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 10, 1932 to February 16, 1932
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 306 km (190 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1932041S14071

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 10, 06:0013.8S 70.8ENot reported
Feb 10, 12:0014.0S 70.6ENot reported
Feb 10, 18:0014.2S 70.3ENot reported
Feb 11, 00:0014.5S 70.0ENot reported
Feb 11, 06:0014.8S 69.6ENot reported
Feb 11, 12:0015.2S 69.1ENot reported
Feb 11, 18:0015.7S 68.4ENot reported
Feb 12, 00:0016.2S 67.8ENot reported
Feb 12, 06:0016.7S 67.2ENot reported
Feb 12, 12:0017.0S 66.8ENot reported
Feb 12, 18:0017.3S 66.4ENot reported
Feb 13, 00:0017.6S 66.1ENot reported
Feb 13, 06:0017.9S 65.7ETropical storm
Feb 13, 12:0018.3S 65.2ETropical storm
Feb 13, 18:0018.8S 64.6ETropical storm
Feb 14, 00:0019.4S 63.9ETropical storm
Feb 14, 06:0020.0S 63.1ETropical storm
Feb 14, 12:0020.6S 62.4ETropical storm
Feb 14, 18:0021.3S 61.6ETropical storm
Feb 15, 00:0022.0S 60.7ETropical storm
Feb 15, 06:0022.5S 59.9ETropical storm
Feb 15, 12:0022.8S 59.4ENot reported
Feb 15, 18:0023.0S 59.1ENot reported
Feb 16, 00:0023.1S 59.0ENot reported
Feb 16, 06:0023.1S 58.9ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1932

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.