The 1962 season

Tropical Depression Maud (1962)

Tropical Depression Maud peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between March 30, 1962 and April 11, 1962.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Maud, 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
March 30, 1962 to April 11, 1962
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 537 km (334 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH261962

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
Mar 30, 06:009.5S 77.4ENot reported
Mar 30, 12:009.6S 76.7ENot reported
Mar 30, 18:009.7S 75.9ENot reported
Mar 31, 00:009.8S 75.0ENot reported
Mar 31, 06:0010.0S 74.0ENot reported
Mar 31, 12:0010.3S 72.7ENot reported
Mar 31, 18:0010.6S 71.8ENot reported
Apr 1, 00:0011.0S 70.8ENot reported
Apr 1, 06:009.8S 72.5ETropical storm
Apr 1, 12:009.9S 71.9ETropical storm
Apr 1, 18:0010.1S 71.2ETropical storm
Apr 2, 00:0010.6S 70.4ETropical storm
Apr 2, 06:0011.0S 69.6ETropical storm
Apr 2, 12:0011.4S 69.1ETropical storm
Apr 2, 18:0011.7S 68.8ETropical storm
Apr 3, 00:0012.0S 68.5ETropical storm
Apr 3, 06:0012.3S 68.2ETropical storm
Apr 3, 12:0012.7S 67.6ETropical storm
Apr 3, 18:0013.1S 67.0ETropical storm
Apr 4, 00:0013.5S 66.4ETropical storm
Apr 4, 06:0013.9S 65.7ETropical storm
Apr 4, 12:0014.5S 64.9ETropical storm
Apr 4, 18:0015.3S 64.0ETropical storm
Apr 5, 00:0016.2S 63.2ETropical storm
Apr 5, 06:0017.1S 62.5ETropical storm
Apr 5, 12:0017.8S 62.3ETropical storm
Apr 5, 18:0018.5S 62.5ETropical storm
Apr 6, 00:0019.0S 62.7ETropical storm
Apr 6, 06:0019.6S 63.3ETropical storm
Apr 6, 12:0020.8S 64.4ETropical storm
Apr 6, 18:0022.0S 65.6ETropical storm
Apr 7, 00:0022.8S 66.8ETropical storm
Apr 7, 06:0023.7S 68.0ETropical storm
Apr 7, 12:0024.7S 69.2ETropical storm
Apr 7, 18:0025.7S 70.3ETropical storm
Apr 8, 00:0026.8S 71.5ETropical storm
Apr 8, 06:0028.0S 73.0ETropical storm
Apr 8, 12:0028.9S 75.5ETropical storm
Apr 8, 18:0029.7S 78.3ETropical storm
Apr 9, 00:0030.3S 80.7ETropical storm
Apr 9, 06:0030.6S 83.0ETropical storm
Apr 9, 12:0030.5S 79.8ENot reported
Apr 9, 18:0029.5S 79.7ENot reported
Apr 10, 00:0029.0S 79.0ENot reported
Apr 10, 06:0029.0S 77.9ENot reported
Apr 10, 12:0029.5S 76.8ENot reported
Apr 10, 18:0030.7S 75.6ENot reported
Apr 11, 00:0032.4S 75.4ENot reported
Apr 11, 06:0034.4S 76.2ENot reported
Apr 11, 12:0036.1S 77.3ENot reported

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.