The 1985 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1985)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 60 kt in the North Indian between May 22, 1985 and May 25, 1985, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
North Indian
Dates
May 22, 1985 to May 25, 1985
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
IO011985

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
May 22, 00:0016.0N 89.0ETropical storm
May 22, 06:0016.0N 89.0ETropical storm
May 22, 12:0016.0N 89.0E35 ktTropical storm
May 22, 18:0016.2N 87.8E30 ktTropical storm
May 23, 00:0016.6N 88.1E30 ktTropical storm
May 23, 06:0017.1N 88.4E35 ktTropical storm
May 23, 12:0017.7N 88.8E40 ktTropical storm
May 23, 18:0018.3N 89.3E45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 00:0019.0N 89.7E45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 06:0019.7N 90.0E50 ktTropical storm
May 24, 12:0020.5N 90.4E55 ktTropical storm
May 24, 18:0021.4N 90.9E60 ktTropical storm
May 25, 00:0022.5N 91.2E60 ktTropical storm
May 25, 06:0023.9N 91.6E30 ktTropical storm
May 25, 12:0024.0N 92.6E35 ktTropical storm
May 25, 18:0025.0N 92.6E25 ktTropical storm

Other North 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.