The 1990 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1990)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between July 12, 1989 and July 18, 1989.

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
South Indian
Dates
July 12, 1989 to July 18, 1989
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 667 km (414 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Identifier
SH021990

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
Jul 12, 18:006.4S 95.2E15 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:007.2S 94.9E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:008.2S 94.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:008.9S 93.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:009.6S 93.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0010.4S 92.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0011.3S 92.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0012.6S 92.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0013.3S 92.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0014.2S 93.3E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0015.2S 94.2E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0016.2S 95.1E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0016.8S 95.6E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0017.2S 95.7E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0017.5S 95.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0017.0S 95.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0016.4S 94.6E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0015.9S 94.2E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0015.6S 93.7E20 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0015.3S 93.2E15 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0015.1S 92.5E15 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0015.0S 91.8E15 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.