Unnamed tropical storm (1979)

Basin

North Indian

Dates

September 16, 1979 to September 25, 1979

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

2.0

Identifier

IO041979

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.

• Unnamed cycloneNorth Indian · 1979Cat 285 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1979Tropical Storm50 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1979Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1979Tropical Storm35 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1979Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1979Tropical Depression30 kt

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.

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.