The 1990 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1990)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Indian between April 17, 1990 and April 18, 1990.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
North Indian
Dates
April 17, 1990 to April 18, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 596 km (370 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
IO011990

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
Apr 17, 12:009.0N 87.4E20 ktNot reported
Apr 17, 18:0010.5N 86.4E25 ktNot reported
Apr 18, 00:0012.5N 86.5E25 ktNot reported
Apr 18, 06:0013.8N 87.7E25 ktNot reported
Apr 18, 12:0014.4N 88.2E25 ktNot reported

Other North 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.