The 1985 season

Tropical Storm Hubert (1985)

Tropical Storm Hubert peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between February 10, 1985 and February 19, 1985, with a lowest pressure of 954 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Hubert, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1985 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 10, 1985 to February 19, 1985
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
954 mb (28.17 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Identifier
SH201985

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 10, 00:0014.2S 129.0E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 10, 06:0014.2S 128.5E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 10, 12:0014.3S 127.9E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 10, 18:0014.4S 127.2E20 kt998 mbXX
Feb 11, 00:0014.4S 126.7E20 kt997 mbXX
Feb 11, 06:0014.4S 126.0E25 kt996 mbXX
Feb 11, 12:0014.5S 125.2E25 kt995 mbXX
Feb 11, 18:0014.6S 124.3E30 kt993 mbXX
Feb 12, 00:0014.8S 123.5E30 kt990 mbXX
Feb 12, 06:0015.0S 122.6E35 kt987 mbXX
Feb 12, 12:0015.4S 121.6E40 kt984 mbXX
Feb 12, 18:0015.8S 120.4E45 kt976 mbXX
Feb 13, 00:0016.0S 119.2E50 kt973 mbXX
Feb 13, 06:0016.2S 117.8E55 kt969 mbXX
Feb 13, 12:0016.5S 116.3E55 kt962 mbXX
Feb 13, 18:0016.8S 114.6E55 kt954 mbXX
Feb 14, 00:0017.2S 112.8E55 kt954 mbXX
Feb 14, 06:0017.7S 111.0E55 kt956 mbXX
Feb 14, 12:0018.2S 109.2E55 kt959 mbXX
Feb 14, 18:0018.7S 107.4E55 kt961 mbXX
Feb 15, 00:0019.2S 105.6E55 kt963 mbXX
Feb 15, 06:0019.6S 103.7E50 kt964 mbXX
Feb 15, 12:0019.9S 101.8E45 kt970 mbXX
Feb 15, 18:0019.9S 99.9E40 kt978 mbXX
Feb 16, 00:0019.3S 98.0E40 kt981 mbXX
Feb 16, 06:0018.6S 96.2E35 kt985 mbXX
Feb 16, 12:0018.4S 94.6E35 kt986 mbXX
Feb 16, 18:0018.4S 93.1E30 kt987 mbXX
Feb 17, 00:0018.5S 91.6E30 kt988 mbXX
Feb 17, 06:0018.6S 90.3E25 kt988 mbXX
Feb 17, 12:0018.9S 89.3E25 kt989 mbXX
Feb 17, 18:0019.2S 88.2E20 kt990 mbXX
Feb 18, 00:0019.2S 87.2E20 kt992 mbXX
Feb 18, 06:0019.0S 86.1E20 kt993 mbXX
Feb 18, 12:0019.2S 84.9E35 kt995 mbXX
Feb 18, 18:0019.2S 84.0E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0019.9S 83.0E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0020.5S 82.0E30 kt999 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1985

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.