The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Jaminy (1984)

Tropical Storm Jaminy peaked at 36 kt in the South Indian between February 22, 1984 and February 24, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jaminy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1984 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
South Indian
Dates
February 22, 1984 to February 24, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 36 kt (41 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1483 km (921 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
1984053S30068

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
Feb 22, 12:0031.1S 67.4E24 kt1000 mbMixed
Feb 22, 18:0032.7S 66.2E36 ktMixed
Feb 23, 00:0034.0S 63.8E36 ktMixed
Feb 23, 06:0034.9S 61.1E36 ktMixed
Feb 23, 12:0035.0S 60.0E36 ktMixed
Feb 23, 18:0035.0S 59.3E36 ktMixed
Feb 24, 00:0034.5S 58.7E36 ktMixed
Feb 24, 06:0034.6S 59.2E36 ktMixed

Other South Indian storms of 1984

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.