The 1957 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1957)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the South Indian between January 15, 1957 and January 22, 1957, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1957 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 15, 1957 to January 22, 1957
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 180 km (112 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH141957

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 15, 18:0010.5S 127.2E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0010.5S 127.1E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0010.7S 127.1E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0011.0S 126.9E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0011.3S 126.7E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0011.7S 126.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0012.2S 125.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0013.0S 123.8E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0013.7S 122.3E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0014.1S 121.1E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0014.4S 120.5E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0014.5S 120.7E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0014.7S 120.7E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0014.9S 120.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0015.1S 120.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0015.3S 119.9E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0015.6S 119.2E15 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0015.8S 118.3E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0016.1S 117.3E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0016.0S 116.0E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0016.0S 114.9ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0016.1S 113.9ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0016.3S 113.0ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0016.9S 112.1ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0017.8S 111.2ENot reported
Jan 22, 00:0018.2S 110.2ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1957

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.