The 1948 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1948)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 18, 1948 and January 29, 1948.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1948 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 18, 1948 to January 29, 1948
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 31 km (19 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH051948

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 18, 06:0011.7S 72.4ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0011.6S 72.0ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0011.7S 71.6ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0011.9S 71.2ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0012.1S 70.8ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0012.2S 70.5ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0012.3S 70.1ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0012.6S 69.7ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0012.8S 69.2ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0012.9S 68.8ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0013.1S 68.4ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0013.2S 68.0ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0013.4S 67.5ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0013.6S 67.1ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0013.8S 66.6ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0014.0S 66.2ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0014.2S 65.8ETropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0014.6S 65.3ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0015.0S 64.6ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0015.4S 63.7ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0015.8S 62.8ETropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0016.1S 62.0ETropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0016.3S 61.2ETropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0016.5S 60.4ETropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0016.8S 59.6ETropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0016.9S 59.0ETropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0017.0S 58.5ETropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0017.0S 57.7ETropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0017.0S 56.9ETropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0017.2S 56.1ETropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0017.7S 55.4ETropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0018.4S 55.0ETropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0019.2S 54.9ETropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0019.9S 54.8ETropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0020.5S 54.7ETropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0021.1S 54.8ETropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0021.7S 54.9ETropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0022.7S 55.0ETropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0023.8S 55.2ETropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0024.8S 55.8ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0025.8S 56.8ETropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0026.7S 55.8ENot reported
Jan 28, 18:0027.1S 55.8ENot reported
Jan 29, 00:0027.4S 55.8ENot reported
Jan 29, 06:0027.6S 55.8ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1948

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.