Unnamed cyclone (1977)
Unnamed cyclone reached Category 3 in the North Indian between November 14, 1977 and November 20, 1977, and made landfall. It killed 10,840 people, as Wikidata records it.
Radar
Reflectivity now over Unnamed cyclone. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.
Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
The storm
- Basin
- North Indian
- Dates
- November 14, 1977 to November 20, 1977
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 15.5
- Fastest the center moved
- 19 kt (22 mph)
- Identifier
- IO061977
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
10,840 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 00:00 | 6.0N 92.5E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 14, 06:00 | 6.0N 91.6E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 14, 12:00 | 6.0N 90.9E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 14, 18:00 | 6.0N 90.5E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 15, 00:00 | 6.1N 90.1E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 15, 06:00 | 6.3N 88.4E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 15, 12:00 | 6.5N 86.7E | 55 kt | XX | |
| Nov 15, 18:00 | 6.7N 86.2E | 60 kt | XX | |
| Nov 16, 00:00 | 7.0N 85.7E | 70 kt | XX | |
| Nov 16, 06:00 | 7.7N 84.9E | 75 kt | XX | |
| Nov 16, 12:00 | 8.6N 84.3E | 80 kt | XX | |
| Nov 16, 18:00 | 9.1N 84.0E | 85 kt | XX | |
| Nov 17, 00:00 | 9.7N 83.7E | 90 kt | XX | |
| Nov 17, 06:00 | 10.3N 83.4E | 95 kt | XX | |
| Nov 17, 12:00 | 11.0N 83.1E | 95 kt | XX | |
| Nov 17, 18:00 | 11.7N 82.8E | 100 kt | XX | |
| Nov 18, 00:00 | 12.5N 82.5E | 100 kt | XX | |
| Nov 18, 06:00 | 13.2N 82.2E | 105 kt | XX | |
| Nov 18, 12:00 | 13.8N 81.8E | 105 kt | XX | |
| Nov 18, 18:00 | 14.3N 81.5E | 110 kt | XX | |
| Nov 19, 00:00 | 14.8N 81.2E | 110 kt | XX | |
| Nov 19, 06:00 | 15.5N 80.9E | 110 kt | XX | |
| Nov 19, 12:00 | 16.2N 80.5E | 105 kt | XX | |
| Nov 19, 18:00 | 16.9N 80.3E | 95 kt | XX | |
| Nov 20, 00:00 | 17.5N 80.2E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 20, 06:00 | 18.0N 80.2E | Tropical storm | ||
| Nov 20, 12:00 | 18.4N 80.3E | Tropical storm |
Other North Indian storms of 1977
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.