The 1992 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1992)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 28 kt in the South Indian between October 16, 1991 and October 22, 1991, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical depression. 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
October 16, 1991 to October 22, 1991
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 28 kt (32 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 848 km (527 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1991290S10077

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 16, 12:0010.0S 76.5E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0010.4S 75.9E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0010.6S 75.2E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0010.7S 74.7E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0010.8S 74.3E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0010.8S 74.0E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0010.9S 73.6E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0011.3S 73.8E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0011.6S 74.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0011.8S 74.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0012.0S 74.5E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0012.2S 74.7E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0012.5S 74.7E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0012.7S 74.5E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0013.0S 74.2E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0013.2S 73.9E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0013.4S 73.5E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0013.9S 72.3E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0014.1S 69.2E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0014.2S 67.4E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0014.2S 66.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0014.2S 65.2E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0014.1S 64.2E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Oct 22, 06:0014.0S 63.2EDisturbance
Oct 22, 12:0013.9S 62.3EDisturbance

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.