The 1949 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1949)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between December 14, 1948 and December 27, 1948, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1949 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
December 14, 1948 to December 27, 1948
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH041949

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
Dec 14, 06:006.3S 68.7ETropical storm
Dec 14, 12:006.4S 68.4ETropical storm
Dec 14, 18:006.4S 68.0ETropical storm
Dec 15, 00:006.4S 67.6ETropical storm
Dec 15, 06:006.4S 67.1ETropical storm
Dec 15, 12:006.5S 66.8ETropical storm
Dec 15, 18:006.6S 66.4ETropical storm
Dec 16, 00:006.7S 65.9ETropical storm
Dec 16, 06:006.7S 65.4ETropical storm
Dec 16, 12:006.7S 65.0ETropical storm
Dec 16, 18:006.6S 64.6ETropical storm
Dec 17, 00:006.7S 64.1ETropical storm
Dec 17, 06:006.8S 63.6ETropical storm
Dec 17, 12:006.8S 63.2ETropical storm
Dec 17, 18:006.8S 62.8ETropical storm
Dec 18, 00:006.9S 62.3ETropical storm
Dec 18, 06:007.0S 61.8ETropical storm
Dec 18, 12:007.1S 61.3ETropical storm
Dec 18, 18:007.2S 60.8ETropical storm
Dec 19, 00:007.2S 60.3ETropical storm
Dec 19, 06:007.3S 59.8ETropical storm
Dec 19, 12:007.4S 59.2ETropical storm
Dec 19, 18:007.5S 58.6ETropical storm
Dec 20, 00:007.6S 58.0ETropical storm
Dec 20, 06:007.7S 57.4ETropical storm
Dec 20, 12:008.0S 56.6ETropical storm
Dec 20, 18:008.3S 55.6ETropical storm
Dec 21, 00:008.5S 54.8ETropical storm
Dec 21, 06:008.8S 53.9ETropical storm
Dec 21, 12:009.2S 52.7ETropical storm
Dec 21, 18:009.6S 51.4ETropical storm
Dec 22, 00:0010.1S 50.2ETropical storm
Dec 22, 06:0010.6S 48.9ETropical storm
Dec 22, 12:0010.9S 48.2ETropical storm
Dec 22, 18:0011.2S 47.8ETropical storm
Dec 23, 00:0011.7S 47.3ETropical storm
Dec 23, 06:0012.1S 46.9ETropical storm
Dec 23, 12:0012.3S 46.7ETropical storm
Dec 23, 18:0012.6S 46.5ETropical storm
Dec 24, 00:0012.9S 46.3ETropical storm
Dec 24, 06:0013.2S 46.2ETropical storm
Dec 24, 12:0013.5S 46.1ETropical storm
Dec 24, 18:0013.8S 46.0ETropical storm
Dec 25, 00:0014.0S 46.0ETropical storm
Dec 25, 06:0014.2S 45.9ETropical storm
Dec 25, 12:0014.5S 45.9ETropical storm
Dec 25, 18:0014.8S 45.8ETropical storm
Dec 26, 00:0015.1S 45.8ETropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0015.3S 45.8ETropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0016.3S 45.9ENot reported
Dec 26, 18:0016.6S 45.9ENot reported
Dec 27, 00:0016.8S 45.9ENot reported
Dec 27, 06:0017.0S 45.9ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1949

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.