The 1982 season

Unnamed cyclone (1982)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 4 in the North Indian between April 30, 1982 and May 5, 1982, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
April 30, 1982 to May 5, 1982
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.6
Identifier
IO011982

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
Apr 30, 06:0011.8N 82.4E20 ktDisturbance
Apr 30, 12:0012.5N 82.1E25 ktDisturbance
Apr 30, 18:0013.2N 82.1E25 ktTropical storm
May 1, 00:0014.1N 82.1E30 ktTropical storm
May 1, 06:0014.7N 82.4E30 ktTropical storm
May 1, 12:0015.1N 82.7E35 ktTropical storm
May 1, 18:0015.6N 83.1E35 ktTropical storm
May 2, 00:0016.1N 83.6E40 ktTropical storm
May 2, 06:0016.4N 84.2E45 ktTropical storm
May 2, 12:0016.7N 85.0E55 ktTropical storm
May 2, 18:0017.0N 85.7E65 ktTropical storm
May 3, 00:0017.2N 86.5E75 ktTropical storm
May 3, 06:0017.3N 87.4E85 ktTropical storm
May 3, 12:0017.4N 88.5E95 ktTropical storm
May 3, 18:0017.4N 89.7E105 ktTropical storm
May 4, 00:0017.5N 90.9E115 ktTropical storm
May 4, 06:0017.5N 92.4E120 ktTropical storm
May 4, 12:0017.4N 94.3E100 ktTropical storm
May 4, 18:0017.5N 95.7E80 ktTropical storm
May 5, 00:0017.7N 96.7E55 ktTropical storm
May 5, 06:0017.9N 97.3E40 ktTropical storm
May 5, 12:0018.1N 97.4E35 ktTropical 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.

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.