The 1991 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1991)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Indian between October 28, 1991 and October 30, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 998 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
October 28, 1991 to October 30, 1991
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1991301N10083

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
Oct 28, 00:0010.0N 83.0E1004 mbNot reported
Oct 28, 06:0010.5N 82.0E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Oct 28, 12:0011.0N 81.5E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 28, 18:0011.5N 81.0E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 00:0012.0N 80.5E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 06:0012.5N 79.5E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 12:0012.5N 79.0E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 18:0013.0N 78.5E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 00:0013.0N 78.0E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 06:0013.0N 77.5E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 12:0013.0N 77.5E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 18:0013.0N 77.0E15 kt1004 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.