Cyclone Elinah (1983)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

January 9, 1983 to January 16, 1983

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Lowest pressure

966 mb (28.53 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 24 km (15 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

4.6

Identifier

SH081983

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 tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Depression ArilisySouth Indian · 1983Tropical Depression28 kt · 997 mb
• Cyclone BemanySouth Indian · 1983Cat 165 kt · 966 mb
• Tropical Depression CleraSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Depression28 kt · 997 mb
• Cyclone DadafySouth Indian · 1983Cat 165 kt · 976 mb
• Cyclone JaneSouth Indian · 1983Cat 180 kt · 947 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Storm35 kt
• Tropical Storm KenSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Storm55 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm LenaSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm NaomiSouth Indian · 1983Tropical Storm60 kt · 960 mb
• Tropical Storm MontySouth Indian · 1983Tropical Storm55 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Depression FelySouth Indian · 1983Tropical Depression20 kt · 1003 mb

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.