The 1933 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1933)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the North Indian between September 12, 1933 and September 19, 1933, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
September 12, 1933 to September 19, 1933
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1933255N20087

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
Sep 12, 00:0020.1N 86.7ETropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0020.3N 86.1ETropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0020.5N 85.3ETropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0020.8N 84.5ETropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0020.9N 83.6ETropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0020.9N 82.6ETropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0020.8N 81.5ETropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0020.9N 80.4ETropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0021.3N 79.5ETropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0021.7N 78.8ETropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0022.1N 78.3ETropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0022.6N 77.8ETropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0023.1N 77.4ETropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0023.2N 77.3ETropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0023.2N 77.3ETropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0023.2N 77.3ETropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0023.2N 77.3ETropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0023.5N 77.1ETropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0024.1N 76.8ETropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0024.6N 76.4ETropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0025.1N 76.1ETropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0025.4N 75.8ETropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0025.8N 75.7ETropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0026.2N 75.6ETropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0026.6N 75.5ETropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0027.1N 75.5ETropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0027.7N 75.5ETropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0028.3N 75.6ETropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0028.7N 75.8ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 1933

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.