The 1990 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1990)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between December 13, 1990 and December 19, 1990, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
December 13, 1990 to December 19, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
IO041990

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
Dec 13, 18:004.1N 86.9E15 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 00:005.4N 86.8E15 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 06:006.8N 86.7E15 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 12:008.1N 86.6E20 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 18:009.2N 86.4E20 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 00:0010.0N 86.3E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 06:0010.6N 86.2E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 12:0011.0N 86.1E30 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 18:0011.4N 85.9E35 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 00:0011.9N 85.8E40 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 06:0012.8N 85.8E40 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 12:0013.7N 86.0E40 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 18:0014.8N 86.3E45 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 00:0015.6N 86.5E45 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 06:0016.5N 86.8E45 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 12:0018.0N 88.1E45 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 18:0019.0N 89.2E45 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 00:0019.7N 90.1E45 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 06:0020.3N 90.9E35 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 12:0020.8N 91.7E35 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 18:0021.3N 92.6E30 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 00:0021.6N 93.5E20 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.