The 1941 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1941)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 13, 1941 and January 26, 1941.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1941 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
January 13, 1941 to January 26, 1941
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 45 km (28 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1941013S14054

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
Jan 13, 06:0014.2S 54.0ENot reported
Jan 13, 12:0014.3S 54.1ENot reported
Jan 13, 18:0014.5S 53.7ENot reported
Jan 14, 00:0014.8S 53.1ETropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0015.0S 52.7ETropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0015.2S 52.4ETropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0015.5S 52.0ETropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0015.7S 51.7ETropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0015.9S 51.5ETropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0016.1S 51.2ETropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0016.2S 51.1ETropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0016.4S 50.9ETropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0016.5S 50.8ETropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0016.7S 50.8ETropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0016.9S 50.8ETropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0017.1S 51.0ETropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0017.4S 51.3ETropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0017.6S 51.8ETropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0017.8S 52.3ETropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0018.0S 52.8ETropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0018.2S 53.4ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0018.4S 54.0ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0018.6S 54.4ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0018.8S 54.9ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0018.9S 55.4ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0019.0S 55.8ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0019.2S 56.2ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0019.3S 56.6ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0019.4S 56.9ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0019.5S 57.2ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0019.6S 57.5ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0019.7S 57.8ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0019.8S 58.1ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0019.9S 58.4ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0020.0S 58.7ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0020.0S 59.0ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0020.1S 59.3ETropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0020.2S 59.6ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0020.3S 60.0ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0020.3S 60.4ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0020.4S 60.8ETropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0020.5S 61.2ETropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0020.5S 61.6ETropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0020.6S 61.9ETropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0020.6S 62.4ETropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0020.7S 62.9ETropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0020.8S 63.3ETropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0020.9S 63.7ETropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0020.9S 63.9ENot reported
Jan 25, 12:0021.0S 64.3ENot reported
Jan 25, 18:0021.0S 64.7ENot reported
Jan 26, 00:0021.1S 65.0ENot reported
Jan 26, 06:0021.2S 65.3ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1941

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.