The 1990 season

Cyclone Cezera (1990)

Cyclone Cezera reached Category 1 in the South Indian between January 31, 1990 and February 11, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 976 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Cezera, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1990 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
January 31, 1990 to February 11, 1990
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
976 mb (28.82 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 469 km (291 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.9
Identifier
SH141990

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
Jan 31, 12:0010.5S 58.5E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0010.6S 59.0E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0010.8S 59.4E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0011.1S 58.5E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0011.1S 58.6E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0011.1S 58.7E40 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0011.2S 59.0E50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0011.5S 59.4E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 12:0011.9S 59.7E70 kt976 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 18:0012.3S 59.8E80 kt976 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 00:0012.7S 59.9E75 kt976 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0013.0S 59.7E70 kt976 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 12:0013.2S 59.6E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0013.2S 59.5E60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0013.1S 59.4E60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 06:0013.0S 59.4E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 12:0012.8S 59.1E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0012.6S 58.6E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0012.3S 58.2E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0012.0S 58.0E50 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0011.8S 57.7E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0011.7S 57.4E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0011.8S 57.1E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0012.1S 56.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0012.4S 56.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0012.9S 56.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0013.4S 56.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0014.1S 57.0E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0014.7S 57.3E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0015.3S 57.9E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0015.9S 58.8E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 06:0016.5S 59.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 12:0017.0S 61.3E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 18:0017.0S 62.8E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 00:0016.6S 63.9E40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 06:0016.4S 64.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 12:0016.2S 65.3E35 kt1000 mbMixed
Feb 9, 18:0016.0S 65.7E30 ktMixed
Feb 10, 00:0015.8S 66.1E25 ktMixed
Feb 10, 06:0015.6S 67.3E20 ktDisturbance
Feb 10, 12:0016.0S 68.2EDisturbance
Feb 10, 18:0017.0S 69.2EDisturbance
Feb 11, 00:0018.8S 69.9EDisturbance
Feb 11, 06:0020.7S 70.3EDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 1990

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.