The 1984 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1984)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between November 20, 1983 and November 25, 1983.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
November 20, 1983 to November 25, 1983
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 655 km (407 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Identifier
SH051984

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 20, 06:008.1S 72.9E20 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 12:008.8S 73.6E20 ktTropical storm
Nov 20, 18:009.4S 73.5E25 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 00:009.8S 72.7E25 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0010.1S 71.9E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0010.4S 71.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 21, 18:0010.6S 70.9E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 00:0010.8S 70.1E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 06:0011.0S 69.2E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 12:0011.3S 68.3E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 22, 18:0011.7S 67.4E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 00:0012.0S 66.7E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 06:0012.3S 66.1E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 12:0012.6S 65.6E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 23, 18:0012.9S 65.1E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0013.2S 64.6E45 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0013.4S 64.1E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0013.6S 63.4E40 ktTropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0013.8S 62.5E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0014.0S 61.8E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0014.2S 61.1E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 12:0014.4S 60.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 25, 18:0014.7S 60.1E25 ktTropical storm

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.

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.