Tropical Storm Belinda (1972)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

March 20, 1972 to March 29, 1972

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Lowest pressure

980 mb (28.94 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 329 km (204 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.1

Identifier

SH251972

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.

• Tropical Depression OdetteSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression RhodaSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Cyclone SallySouth Indian · 1972Cat 165 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Depression AgnesSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression BelleSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression CarolineSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression DollySouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression EugenieSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression FabienneSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm Gigi:TessieSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Storm40 kt · 950 mb
• Cyclone VickySouth Indian · 1972Cat 285 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Depression Gigi:TessieSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm AngelaSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Depression HermioneSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression CarolSouth Indian · 1972Tropical Depression965 mb

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.