The 1975 season

Unnamed cyclone (1975)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 1 in the North Indian between May 4, 1975 and May 8, 1975, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed cyclone, 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
North Indian
Dates
May 4, 1975 to May 8, 1975
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.2
Identifier
IO031975

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
May 4, 12:0012.5N 96.0ETropical storm
May 4, 18:0012.6N 96.2ETropical storm
May 5, 00:0012.9N 96.0ETropical storm
May 5, 06:0013.4N 95.5ETropical storm
May 5, 12:0014.0N 95.0ETropical storm
May 5, 18:0014.5N 94.5E35 ktXX
May 6, 00:0014.9N 94.1E40 ktXX
May 6, 06:0015.3N 93.3E50 ktXX
May 6, 12:0015.6N 92.6E65 ktXX
May 6, 18:0015.8N 92.9E75 ktXX
May 7, 00:0015.9N 93.4E75 ktXX
May 7, 06:0016.1N 93.5E70 ktXX
May 7, 12:0016.5N 93.7E65 ktXX
May 7, 18:0017.0N 94.4E40 ktXX
May 8, 00:0017.6N 95.4E25 ktXX
May 8, 06:0018.3N 96.7E20 ktXX
May 8, 12:0019.0N 98.2ETropical storm

Other North 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.

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.