The 1954 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1954)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 8, 1954 and January 24, 1954, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1954 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 8, 1954 to January 24, 1954
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH051954

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 8, 06:0011.6S 65.6ENot reported
Jan 8, 12:0011.6S 65.6ENot reported
Jan 8, 18:0011.6S 65.6ENot reported
Jan 9, 00:0011.6S 65.4ENot reported
Jan 9, 06:0011.7S 64.9ENot reported
Jan 9, 12:0011.9S 64.1ENot reported
Jan 9, 18:0012.1S 63.1ENot reported
Jan 10, 00:0012.4S 62.1ENot reported
Jan 10, 06:0012.7S 61.1ENot reported
Jan 10, 12:0013.1S 60.5ENot reported
Jan 10, 18:0013.6S 59.9ENot reported
Jan 11, 00:0014.0S 59.4ENot reported
Jan 11, 06:0014.5S 58.8ENot reported
Jan 11, 12:0014.9S 58.0ENot reported
Jan 11, 18:0015.3S 57.2ENot reported
Jan 12, 00:0015.7S 56.3ENot reported
Jan 12, 06:0016.0S 55.5ENot reported
Jan 12, 12:0016.3S 54.8ENot reported
Jan 12, 18:0016.7S 54.1ENot reported
Jan 13, 00:0017.0S 53.4ENot reported
Jan 13, 06:0017.3S 52.7ENot reported
Jan 13, 12:0017.6S 52.0ENot reported
Jan 13, 18:0017.9S 51.2ENot reported
Jan 14, 00:0018.3S 50.4ENot reported
Jan 14, 06:0018.6S 49.6ENot reported
Jan 14, 12:0019.0S 48.7ENot reported
Jan 14, 18:0019.4S 47.9ENot reported
Jan 15, 00:0019.8S 47.0ENot reported
Jan 15, 06:0020.1S 46.1ENot reported
Jan 15, 12:0020.4S 45.2ENot reported
Jan 15, 18:0020.6S 44.4ENot reported
Jan 16, 00:0020.8S 43.6ENot reported
Jan 16, 06:0020.9S 43.0ENot reported
Jan 16, 12:0021.1S 42.5ENot reported
Jan 16, 18:0021.2S 42.1ENot reported
Jan 17, 00:0021.3S 41.9ENot reported
Jan 17, 06:0020.3S 41.3ETropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0020.1S 41.6ETropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0019.9S 41.8ETropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0019.7S 42.0ETropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0019.5S 42.2ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0019.4S 42.6ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0019.3S 43.0ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0019.3S 43.4ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0019.3S 43.7ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0019.2S 43.9ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0019.0S 44.0ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0018.7S 44.0ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0018.4S 43.9ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0018.1S 43.8ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0018.0S 43.6ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0018.1S 43.4ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0018.5S 43.2ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0019.0S 43.4ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0019.5S 43.8ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0019.8S 44.0ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0020.2S 44.2ETropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0021.0S 44.6ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0021.8S 45.1ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0022.6S 45.4ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0023.5S 45.7ETropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0023.0S 46.1ENot reported
Jan 23, 18:0023.2S 46.2ENot reported
Jan 24, 00:0023.2S 46.2ENot reported
Jan 24, 06:0023.2S 46.2ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1954

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.