The 1974 season

Unnamed cyclone (1974)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 1 in the North Indian between November 23, 1974 and November 28, 1974, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed cyclone, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1974 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
North Indian
Dates
November 23, 1974 to November 28, 1974
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Identifier
IO121974

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
Nov 23, 00:0010.6N 88.3ETropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0010.6N 88.3ETropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0010.6N 88.0ETropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0010.6N 87.5ETropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0010.6N 86.8ETropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0010.8N 85.9ETropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0011.1N 85.0ETropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0011.5N 84.5E35 ktXX
Nov 25, 00:0012.1N 84.1E40 ktXX
Nov 25, 06:0012.9N 83.9E45 ktXX
Nov 25, 12:0013.7N 84.0E45 ktXX
Nov 25, 18:0013.9N 84.8E50 ktXX
Nov 26, 00:0014.0N 85.6E55 ktXX
Nov 26, 06:0014.5N 85.8E60 ktXX
Nov 26, 12:0015.1N 86.0E60 ktXX
Nov 26, 18:0015.8N 86.3E60 ktXX
Nov 27, 00:0016.7N 86.8E65 ktXX
Nov 27, 06:0018.0N 87.7E70 ktXX
Nov 27, 12:0019.3N 88.6E70 ktXX
Nov 27, 18:0020.2N 89.2E75 ktXX
Nov 28, 00:0021.1N 89.9E70 ktXX
Nov 28, 06:0022.2N 90.5E65 ktXX
Nov 28, 12:0023.4N 91.2EMixed

Other North Indian storms of 1974

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.