Tropical Storm Bemazava (1987)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

February 5, 1987 to February 17, 1987

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 36 kt (41 mph), ten-minute wind

Lowest pressure

997 mb (29.44 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 358 km (222 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

4.0

Identifier

1987036S15066

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm55 kt
• Tropical Storm ConnieSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm55 kt · 950 mb
• Cyclone AlininaSouth Indian · 1987Cat 175 kt · 976 mb
• Tropical Storm DamienSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm50 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm ClotildaSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm52 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm ElsieSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm60 kt · 940 mb
• Cyclone DaodoSouth Indian · 1987Cat 175 kt · 954 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Storm45 kt
• Cyclone ElizabethaSouth Indian · 1987Cat 175 kt · 976 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1987Tropical Depression30 kt

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.

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.