The 1953 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1953)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 7, 1953 and January 19, 1953, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1953 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 7, 1953 to January 19, 1953
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH051953

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 7, 18:008.0S 56.7ETropical storm
Jan 8, 00:008.5S 56.2ETropical storm
Jan 8, 06:009.0S 55.7ETropical storm
Jan 8, 12:009.5S 55.2ETropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0010.1S 54.5ETropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0010.6S 53.6ETropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0010.8S 52.6ETropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0010.6S 51.5ETropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0010.3S 50.5ETropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0010.1S 49.5ETropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0010.0S 48.5ETropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0010.0S 47.7ETropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0010.2S 47.0ETropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0010.6S 46.4ETropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0011.1S 45.9ETropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0011.5S 45.6ETropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0012.0S 45.4ETropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0012.3S 45.3ETropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0012.7S 45.3ETropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0013.3S 45.4ETropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0014.0S 45.6ETropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0014.4S 45.9ETropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0014.9S 46.2ETropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0015.4S 46.5ETropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0015.9S 46.8ETropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0016.3S 47.0ETropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0016.6S 47.2ETropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0016.9S 47.5ETropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0017.2S 47.7ETropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0017.5S 47.9ETropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0017.8S 48.0ETropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0018.1S 48.2ETropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0018.5S 48.4ETropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0018.8S 48.5ETropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0019.1S 48.5ETropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0019.5S 49.3ENot reported
Jan 16, 18:0019.8S 49.2ENot reported
Jan 17, 00:0020.0S 49.1ENot reported
Jan 17, 06:0020.2S 49.0ENot reported
Jan 17, 12:0020.4S 48.8ENot reported
Jan 17, 18:0020.6S 48.7ENot reported
Jan 18, 00:0020.7S 48.5ENot reported
Jan 18, 06:0020.8S 48.3ENot reported
Jan 18, 12:0020.9S 48.1ENot reported
Jan 18, 18:0021.0S 48.0ENot reported
Jan 19, 00:0021.0S 47.8ENot reported
Jan 19, 06:0021.1S 47.7ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1953

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.