The 1972 season

Tropical Depression Carol (1972)

Tropical Depression Carol peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between April 6, 1972 and April 14, 1972, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Carol, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1972 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
April 6, 1972 to April 14, 1972
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1923 km (1195 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1972097S13084

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
Apr 6, 00:0013.0S 84.0E994 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 06:0013.0S 83.8E993 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 12:0013.0S 83.6E992 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 18:0013.0S 83.4E991 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 00:0013.0S 83.2E990 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 06:0013.3S 82.8E988 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 12:0013.5S 82.4E986 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 18:0013.7S 82.2E984 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 00:0014.0S 82.0E980 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 06:0014.5S 81.6E976 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 12:0015.1S 81.4E972 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 18:0015.5S 81.2E968 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 00:0016.0S 81.0E965 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 06:0016.2S 81.1E965 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 12:0016.3S 81.2E966 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 18:0016.6S 81.5E967 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 00:0017.0S 81.7E968 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 06:0017.6S 82.2E968 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 12:0018.0S 82.8E969 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 18:0018.6S 83.4E970 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 00:0019.2S 84.1ETropical storm
Apr 11, 06:0019.8S 84.7ETropical storm
Apr 11, 12:0020.5S 85.3E974 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 18:0021.3S 85.9E976 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 00:0022.0S 86.5E980 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 06:0022.3S 86.8E986 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 12:0022.5S 87.2E992 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 18:0022.7S 87.6E996 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 00:0023.0S 88.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 06:0023.6S 89.4E1001 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 12:0024.4S 90.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 18:0025.2S 92.4E1003 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 00:0026.0S 94.0E1004 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1972

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.