The 1990 season

Cyclone Pedro (1990)

Cyclone Pedro reached Category 1 in the South Indian between November 4, 1989 and November 13, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Pedro, 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
November 4, 1989 to November 13, 1989
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 428 km (266 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Identifier
SH061990

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
Nov 4, 18:007.0S 99.9E15 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:007.0S 99.2E15 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:007.0S 98.6E15 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:007.0S 98.6E15 ktTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:007.0S 97.6E20 ktTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:007.0S 97.1E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:007.0S 96.6E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:007.0S 96.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:006.8S 96.0E20 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:006.6S 95.7E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:006.2S 95.3E20 kt999 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:006.0S 94.7E20 kt999 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:006.3S 94.2E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:006.8S 93.7E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:007.7S 93.6E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:008.4S 93.9E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:009.0S 94.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:009.7S 94.4E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0010.5S 94.5E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0011.3S 94.9E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 18:0011.8S 95.3E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 00:0012.4S 95.8E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 06:0012.9S 96.0E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 12:0013.3S 96.0E65 kt982 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 18:0013.8S 96.0E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 00:0014.4S 95.9E55 kt986 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 06:0015.0S 95.8E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0015.7S 95.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 18:0016.7S 95.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 00:0018.1S 94.6E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 06:0019.5S 94.1E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 12:0020.1S 94.1E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 12, 18:0020.3S 94.1E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 00:0020.7S 94.2E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 06:0021.0S 94.2E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Nov 13, 12:0021.5S 94.2E20 ktTropical storm

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.