The 1991 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1991)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Indian between August 21, 1991 and August 26, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1991 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
August 21, 1991 to August 26, 1991
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1991234N20089

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
Aug 21, 18:0020.3N 88.5E998 mbNot reported
Aug 22, 00:0020.7N 88.2E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 22, 06:0021.3N 87.5E25 kt996 mbNot reported
Aug 22, 12:0022.5N 86.0E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 22, 18:0022.5N 84.0E25 kt996 mbNot reported
Aug 23, 00:0022.7N 83.0E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 23, 06:0023.0N 81.5E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 23, 12:0023.8N 80.2E25 kt992 mbNot reported
Aug 23, 18:0024.0N 80.0E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 24, 00:0024.5N 79.8E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 24, 06:0024.5N 79.8E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 24, 12:0024.5N 79.8E25 kt992 mbNot reported
Aug 24, 18:0025.0N 78.6E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 25, 00:0026.2N 78.5E25 kt992 mbNot reported
Aug 25, 06:0026.8N 78.5E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 25, 12:0027.0N 78.5E25 kt992 mbNot reported
Aug 25, 18:0027.5N 78.5E25 kt994 mbNot reported
Aug 26, 00:0027.5N 78.5E25 kt996 mbNot reported
Aug 26, 06:0028.0N 78.4E15 kt998 mbNot reported
Aug 26, 12:0028.5N 78.2E15 kt996 mbNot reported
Aug 26, 18:0028.7N 78.2E15 kt998 mbNot reported

Other North Indian storms of 1991

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.