The 1962 season

Tropical Depression Daisy (1962)

Tropical Depression Daisy peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 15, 1962 and January 23, 1962, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Daisy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1962 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, 1962 to January 23, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
SH071962

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.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 639 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 9.47 inches (241 mm).

StationTotalPosition
PORTLAND INTL JETPORT9.47 in (241 mm)43.65N 70.30W
NEWBURYPORT 3 WNW6.76 in (172 mm)42.83N 70.93W
BOSTON LOGAN INTL AP4.83 in (123 mm)42.37N 71.02W
SANFORD 2 NNW4.61 in (117 mm)43.47N 70.78W
WEST RUMNEY4.48 in (114 mm)43.80N 71.85W
DANVILLE4.39 in (112 mm)44.42N 72.13W
CHATHAM LT STN4.28 in (109 mm)41.67N 69.95W
SOUTH DANBURY4.24 in (108 mm)43.50N 71.90W
BLACKWATER DAM4.23 in (107 mm)43.32N 71.72W
PLYMOUTH-KINGSTON4.21 in (107 mm)41.98N 70.70W
MANCHESTER4.21 in (107 mm)43.03N 71.48W
FRANKLIN FALLS DAM4.18 in (106 mm)43.47N 71.65W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 15, 06:0012.2S 64.0ETropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0013.0S 63.3ETropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0013.4S 62.4ETropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0013.5S 61.3ETropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0013.6S 60.1ETropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0013.6S 58.9ETropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0013.6S 57.6ETropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0013.6S 56.1ETropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0013.5S 54.7ETropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0013.4S 53.7ETropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0013.2S 52.7ETropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0013.1S 51.7ETropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0013.0S 50.8ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0013.0S 49.9ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0013.2S 49.0ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0013.4S 48.3ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0013.7S 47.6ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0014.1S 46.6ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0014.7S 45.5ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0015.6S 44.5ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0016.5S 43.7ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0017.1S 43.3ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0017.5S 43.1ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0017.7S 42.7ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0018.0S 42.2ETropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0018.3S 41.4ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0018.6S 40.5ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0018.9S 39.5ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0019.2S 38.5ETropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0019.4S 37.9ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0019.5S 37.3ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0019.6S 36.5ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0019.8S 35.7ETropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0019.9S 34.9ETropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0020.0S 34.1ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1962

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.