The 1982 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1982)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Indian between November 28, 1982 and November 29, 1982.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
November 28, 1982 to November 29, 1982
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Landfall
No; closest approach 212 km (132 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1982332N07088

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
Nov 28, 06:007.2N 87.2ETropical storm
Nov 28, 12:007.5N 85.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 28, 18:007.9N 84.7ETropical storm
Nov 29, 00:008.3N 83.9ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 1982

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.