The 1975 season

Cyclone Beverley (1975)

Cyclone Beverley peaked at 110 kt in the South Indian between March 22, 1975 and April 3, 1975, with a lowest pressure of 929 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Beverley, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1975 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 22, 1975 to April 3, 1975
Peak strength
Cyclone, 110 kt (127 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
929 mb (27.43 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
SH281975

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 22, 00:0012.2S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 22, 06:0012.3S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 22, 12:0012.4S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 22, 18:0012.6S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 23, 00:0012.9S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 23, 06:0013.0S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 23, 12:0013.2S 116.1ETropical storm
Mar 23, 18:0013.4S 116.1ETropical storm
Mar 24, 00:0013.8S 116.1ETropical storm
Mar 24, 06:0014.3S 116.1ETropical storm
Mar 24, 12:0014.8S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 24, 18:0015.3S 116.0ETropical storm
Mar 25, 00:0015.7S 115.9ETropical storm
Mar 25, 06:0016.0S 115.9ETropical storm
Mar 25, 12:0016.4S 115.8ETropical storm
Mar 25, 18:0016.7S 115.7ETropical storm
Mar 26, 00:0017.1S 115.6ETropical storm
Mar 26, 06:0017.3S 115.1ETropical storm
Mar 26, 12:0017.5S 114.5ETropical storm
Mar 26, 18:0017.8S 114.3ETropical storm
Mar 27, 00:0018.0S 114.0ETropical storm
Mar 27, 06:0018.2S 113.7ETropical storm
Mar 27, 12:0018.2S 113.3ETropical storm
Mar 27, 18:0018.2S 113.0ETropical storm
Mar 28, 00:0018.1S 112.7ETropical storm
Mar 28, 06:0018.1S 112.1ETropical storm
Mar 28, 12:0018.0S 111.4ETropical storm
Mar 28, 18:0018.1S 110.8ETropical storm
Mar 29, 00:0018.2S 110.6ETropical storm
Mar 29, 06:0018.3S 110.7ETropical storm
Mar 29, 12:0018.5S 110.9ETropical storm
Mar 29, 18:0018.7S 111.0ETropical storm
Mar 30, 00:0019.0S 111.3ETropical storm
Mar 30, 06:0019.6S 111.9ETropical storm
Mar 30, 12:0020.3S 112.6ETropical storm
Mar 30, 18:0020.9S 113.3ETropical storm
Mar 31, 00:0022.0S 114.0E70 kt969 mbTropical storm
Mar 31, 06:0023.7S 114.0ETropical storm
Mar 31, 12:0025.4S 114.2ETropical storm
Mar 31, 18:0027.1S 115.1ETropical storm
Apr 1, 00:0028.7S 116.0ETropical storm
Apr 1, 06:0030.3S 116.9ETropical storm
Apr 1, 12:0031.8S 117.8EMixed
Apr 1, 18:0034.0S 118.6ETropical storm
Apr 2, 00:0035.4S 119.9EMixed
Apr 2, 06:0036.5S 121.8EMixed
Apr 2, 12:0037.4S 123.5EMixed
Apr 2, 18:0038.8S 125.3EMixed
Apr 3, 00:0040.7S 127.6EMixed

Other South Indian storms of 1975

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.