The 1992 season

Cyclone Neville (1992)

Cyclone Neville reached Category 4 in the South Indian between April 4, 1992 and April 15, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Cyclone Neville. 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
April 4, 1992 to April 15, 1992
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 22 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.8
Identifier
SH281992

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
Apr 4, 18:008.3S 131.6E20 ktTropical storm
Apr 5, 00:008.5S 132.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 06:008.7S 132.4E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 12:008.9S 132.8E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 18:009.2S 133.1E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 00:009.5S 133.4E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 06:009.8S 133.6E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 12:0010.1S 133.5E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 18:0010.3S 133.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 00:0010.4S 132.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 06:0010.6S 132.3E50 kt988 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 12:0010.8S 131.7E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 18:0011.0S 131.0E65 kt986 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 00:0011.1S 130.3E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 06:0011.1S 129.7E95 kt965 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 12:0011.2S 129.2E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 18:0011.3S 128.8E115 kt945 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 00:0011.4S 128.5E120 kt950 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 06:0011.5S 128.3E120 kt950 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 12:0011.6S 128.2E120 kt954 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 18:0011.6S 128.1E115 kt958 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 00:0011.6S 128.0E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 06:0011.6S 127.8E110 kt962 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 12:0011.7S 127.5E105 kt966 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 18:0011.8S 127.2E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 00:0011.9S 127.0E95 kt972 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 06:0012.0S 126.7E90 kt974 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 12:0012.1S 126.4E85 kt976 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 18:0012.2S 126.2E80 kt978 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 00:0012.2S 126.0E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 06:0012.3S 125.7E70 kt982 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 12:0012.4S 125.5E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 18:0012.5S 125.3E60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 00:0012.7S 125.1E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 06:0012.9S 124.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 12:0013.0S 124.7E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 18:0013.1S 124.5E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 00:0013.3S 124.4E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 06:0013.5S 124.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 12:0013.6S 124.1E30 ktTropical storm
Apr 14, 18:0013.7S 123.8E30 ktTropical storm
Apr 15, 00:0013.8S 123.5E25 ktTropical storm
Apr 15, 06:0013.9S 123.2E25 ktTropical storm
Apr 15, 12:0014.0S 123.0E20 ktTropical storm

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.