Tropical Storm Tina (1990)

Tropical Storm Tina peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between January 24, 1990 and January 29, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 976 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Tina, 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 24, 1990 to January 29, 1990
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure: 976 mb (28.82 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 2.4
Identifier: SH111990

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Jan 24, 06:00	15.0S 115.0E	25 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 24, 12:00	15.1S 114.9E	25 kt		Tropical storm
Jan 24, 18:00	15.2S 114.7E	25 kt		Tropical storm
Jan 25, 00:00	15.5S 114.5E	30 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 25, 06:00	16.1S 114.0E	30 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 25, 12:00	16.3S 113.1E	30 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 25, 18:00	16.5S 112.3E	30 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 26, 00:00	16.7S 111.8E	35 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 26, 06:00	17.0S 111.9E	35 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 26, 12:00	17.7S 112.1E	35 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 26, 18:00	18.6S 112.4E	45 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 27, 00:00	19.6S 112.8E	45 kt	976 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 27, 06:00	20.8S 113.2E	45 kt	976 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 27, 12:00	22.1S 113.6E	45 kt	976 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 27, 18:00	23.8S 114.0E	45 kt	977 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 28, 00:00	25.6S 114.4E	45 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 28, 06:00	27.5S 114.9E	45 kt	982 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 28, 12:00	29.3S 116.1E	40 kt	988 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 28, 18:00	31.3S 117.4E	35 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 29, 00:00	33.7S 119.2E	35 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 29, 06:00	36.3S 121.2E	35 kt	995 mb	Extratropical
Jan 29, 12:00	38.6S 123.4E	40 kt		Not reported

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.