The 1985 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1985)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Indian between May 28, 1985 and June 1, 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 28, 1985 to June 1, 1985
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
IO021985

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 28, 06:0015.1N 67.4E30 ktTropical storm
May 28, 12:0015.8N 67.5E35 ktTropical storm
May 28, 18:0016.5N 67.6E40 ktTropical storm
May 29, 00:0017.2N 67.7E45 ktTropical storm
May 29, 06:0017.9N 67.8E45 ktTropical storm
May 29, 12:0018.6N 68.1E50 ktTropical storm
May 29, 18:0019.3N 68.3E50 ktTropical storm
May 30, 00:0020.1N 68.5E50 ktTropical storm
May 30, 06:0020.8N 68.4E45 ktTropical storm
May 30, 12:0021.4N 68.3E45 ktTropical storm
May 30, 18:0022.1N 68.3E40 ktTropical storm
May 31, 00:0022.8N 68.4E40 ktTropical storm
May 31, 06:0023.3N 68.5E35 ktTropical storm
May 31, 12:0023.9N 68.8E30 ktTropical storm
May 31, 18:0024.4N 69.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jun 1, 00:0024.8N 69.5E20 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.