Unnamed tropical storm (1982)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 55 kt in the North Indian between May 30, 1982 and June 5, 1982, with a lowest pressure of 952 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1982 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: May 30, 1982 to June 5, 1982
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure: 952 mb (28.11 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 3.1
Identifier: IO021982

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
May 30, 06:00	13.2N 87.8E	30 kt		Disturbance
May 30, 12:00	13.4N 88.3E	35 kt		Disturbance
May 30, 18:00	13.6N 88.8E	40 kt		Disturbance
May 31, 00:00	13.7N 89.1E	45 kt		Disturbance
May 31, 06:00	14.1N 89.6E	50 kt		Disturbance
May 31, 12:00	14.7N 90.1E	55 kt	990 mb	Mixed
May 31, 18:00	15.2N 90.1E	55 kt	988 mb	Mixed
Jun 1, 00:00	15.7N 89.9E	45 kt	986 mb	Mixed
Jun 1, 06:00	16.0N 89.8E	35 kt	984 mb	Mixed
Jun 1, 12:00	16.4N 89.7E	30 kt	984 mb	XX
Jun 1, 18:00	16.8N 89.6E	25 kt	984 mb	XX
Jun 2, 00:00	17.2N 89.4E	30 kt	984 mb	XX
Jun 2, 06:00	17.5N 89.1E	30 kt	982 mb	XX
Jun 2, 12:00	17.9N 88.8E	35 kt	982 mb	XX
Jun 2, 18:00	18.2N 88.5E	40 kt	979 mb	XX
Jun 3, 00:00	18.7N 88.1E	45 kt	976 mb	XX
Jun 3, 06:00	19.2N 87.5E	55 kt	960 mb	XX
Jun 3, 12:00	19.9N 86.9E	55 kt	952 mb	XX
Jun 3, 18:00	20.8N 86.2E	45 kt	952 mb	XX
Jun 4, 00:00	21.8N 85.4E	40 kt	970 mb	XX
Jun 4, 06:00	22.9N 84.8E	30 kt	986 mb	XX
Jun 4, 12:00	23.0N 84.0E	30 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 4, 18:00	24.0N 82.5E	30 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Jun 5, 00:00	24.5N 81.0E	25 kt	990 mb	Tropical 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.