Tropical Depression Belinda (1968)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

December 8, 1967 to December 23, 1967

Peak strength

Tropical Depression

Landfall

No; closest approach 1002 km (623 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.0

Identifier

SH031968

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.

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• Tropical Depression DebbySouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression FlossieSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression GeorgetteSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression BetsySouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression998 mb
• Tropical Depression HenrietteSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm DoreenSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Storm50 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm Bertha:BettySouth Indian · 1968Tropical Storm35 kt · 988 mb
• Tropical Depression EllaSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression1001 mb
• Tropical Depression IdaSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression Gina:JanineSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression995 mb
• Tropical Depression KarineSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression MoniqueSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression LottieSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression NoreenSouth Indian · 1968Tropical Depression

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.

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.