The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Elizabetha (1992)

Tropical Storm Elizabetha peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 22, 1992 and February 26, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Elizabetha, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
February 22, 1992 to February 26, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
1992054S14044

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 22, 18:0014.0S 43.6E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0014.4S 44.0E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0014.5S 44.4E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0014.6S 44.6E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0014.7S 45.0E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0014.8S 45.7E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0015.0S 46.0E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0015.5S 46.0E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0015.9S 46.1E29 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0016.4S 46.4E27 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0016.7S 46.6E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0016.8S 46.6E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0016.9S 46.7E21 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0017.0S 46.8EMixed
Feb 26, 06:0017.1S 46.9EMixed

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. 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.