The 1982 season

Unnamed cyclone (1982)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 2 in the North Indian between November 4, 1982 and November 9, 1982, with a lowest pressure of 962 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed cyclone, 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
November 4, 1982 to November 9, 1982
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
962 mb (28.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.1
Identifier
IO051982

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 4, 12:0011.5N 66.0E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0011.3N 63.6E25 ktMixed
Nov 5, 00:0011.7N 63.4E30 kt997 mbMixed
Nov 5, 06:0012.0N 63.7E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0012.3N 64.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0012.6N 64.4E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0013.0N 64.8E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0013.3N 65.1E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0013.8N 65.6E45 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0014.3N 66.0E50 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0015.0N 66.6E55 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0015.9N 67.3E60 ktTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0017.0N 68.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0018.0N 68.8E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0019.0N 69.5E80 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0020.1N 70.3E85 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0021.2N 71.2E80 kt962 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0022.1N 72.2E70 ktTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0022.5N 73.4E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0023.3N 74.0ETropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0023.5N 75.0E25 kt999 mbTropical 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.