The 1975 season

Unnamed cyclone (1975)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 1 in the North Indian between October 19, 1975 and October 24, 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
October 19, 1975 to October 24, 1975
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Identifier
IO161975

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
Oct 19, 00:0016.4N 72.5ETropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0016.6N 72.4ETropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0017.0N 72.0ETropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0017.6N 71.4ETropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0018.2N 70.8ETropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0018.6N 70.2ETropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0018.9N 69.6ETropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0019.2N 69.1E35 ktXX
Oct 21, 00:0019.4N 68.6E40 ktXX
Oct 21, 06:0019.9N 68.4E50 ktXX
Oct 21, 12:0020.5N 68.3E60 ktXX
Oct 21, 18:0020.5N 68.3E70 ktXX
Oct 22, 00:0020.6N 68.5E80 ktXX
Oct 22, 06:0021.2N 68.8E80 ktXX
Oct 22, 12:0021.9N 69.3ETropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0022.4N 70.2ETropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0023.0N 71.2ETropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0023.6N 72.0ETropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0024.2N 72.8ETropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0024.7N 74.0ETropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0025.1N 75.2ETropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0025.3N 75.9ETropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0025.4N 76.3EMixed

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.