The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Davilia (1992)

Tropical Storm Davilia peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 16, 1992 and February 25, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Davilia. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
February 16, 1992 to February 25, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 977 km (607 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
SH191992

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
Feb 16, 12:0017.5S 66.6E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0017.5S 66.9E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0017.3S 67.1E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0017.0S 67.3E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0016.6S 67.4E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0016.4S 67.8E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0016.3S 68.1E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0016.3S 68.5E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0016.3S 68.7E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0016.4S 68.8E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0016.4S 68.9E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0016.4S 69.0E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 12:0016.5S 69.1E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 18:0016.5S 69.3E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 20, 00:0016.6S 69.4E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 20, 06:0016.7S 69.5E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0016.8S 69.6E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0016.9S 69.8E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0017.1S 70.1E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0017.3S 70.4E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0017.6S 70.9E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0018.4S 71.0E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0018.6S 70.8E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0019.0S 71.0E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0019.4S 71.2E25 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0019.8S 71.4E30 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0020.2S 71.6E30 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0020.6S 71.8E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0021.0S 72.0E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0021.4S 72.2E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0021.8S 72.4E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0022.2S 72.6E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0022.6S 72.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0023.0S 73.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0022.8S 73.3E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0022.8S 73.8E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Feb 25, 12:0022.6S 74.6EDisturbance

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.