Unnamed cyclone (1988)

Basin

North Indian

Dates

November 21, 1988 to November 30, 1988

Peak strength

Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

14.1

Fastest the center moved

15 kt (17 mph)

Identifier

IO041988

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 stormNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Storm35 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Storm35 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Storm55 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Storm55 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 1988Tropical Storm45 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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: 1988 Bangladesh cyclone