The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Bryna (1992)

Tropical Storm Bryna peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between December 25, 1991 and January 10, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Bryna, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1992 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
December 25, 1991 to January 10, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.4
Identifier
SH101992

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 25, 12:0013.1S 57.5E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Dec 25, 18:0012.8S 58.3E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 00:0012.5S 59.0E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0012.2S 59.6E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0012.0S 60.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 18:0011.7S 61.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 00:0011.4S 61.7E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 06:0011.4S 62.5E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 12:0011.6S 63.2E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 18:0011.8S 63.7E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 00:0012.0S 64.1E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 06:0012.3S 64.4E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 12:0012.6S 64.5E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0012.7S 64.4E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0012.8S 64.3E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0012.9S 64.2E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0012.8S 63.9E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0012.9S 63.2E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0012.9S 62.4E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 06:0013.0S 61.7E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 12:0013.1S 60.8E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 18:0013.6S 59.4E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 00:0013.8S 58.4E33 kt993 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 06:0014.0S 57.4E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 12:0014.2S 56.4E38 kt991 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 18:0014.5S 55.4E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 00:0014.7S 54.4E43 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 06:0014.9S 53.6E45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 12:0015.1S 52.9E43 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 18:0015.2S 52.3E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 00:0015.3S 51.6E38 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 06:0015.4S 50.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 12:0015.4S 50.0E33 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 18:0015.4S 49.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 00:0015.4S 48.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 06:0015.2S 47.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 12:0015.1S 46.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 18:0015.2S 45.8E24 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 00:0015.5S 45.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 06:0016.0S 44.6E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 12:0016.8S 44.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 18:0017.8S 44.1E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 00:0019.4S 43.9E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 06:0021.1S 43.9E1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 5, 12:0021.9S 44.6E1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 5, 18:0022.4S 45.5E1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 6, 00:0022.8S 46.3E1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 6, 06:0023.2S 47.2E1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 6, 12:0023.6S 48.1E20 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0023.9S 49.1E24 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 7, 00:0024.2S 50.1E25 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 7, 06:0024.5S 51.2E31 kt995 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0024.9S 52.0E36 kt991 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0025.4S 53.0E36 kt991 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0025.8S 53.9E36 kt991 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0026.4S 54.8E35 kt992 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0027.3S 55.1E35 kt992 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0028.1S 54.6E31 kt995 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0028.5S 53.8E27 kt998 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0028.5S 53.0E24 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0028.5S 52.3E20 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0028.7S 51.6E20 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0029.1S 51.1EDisturbance
Jan 10, 06:0029.7S 50.7EDisturbance
Jan 10, 12:0030.7S 51.5EDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 1992

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.