The 1992 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1992)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Indian between October 13, 1992 and October 22, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
October 13, 1992 to October 22, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
IO081992

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 13, 18:0010.1N 89.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 00:0010.1N 88.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 06:0010.1N 87.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 12:0010.1N 86.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 18:0010.3N 85.3E15 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 00:0010.8N 85.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 06:0011.4N 84.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 12:0011.8N 84.8E15 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 18:0012.1N 84.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 00:0012.2N 84.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 06:0012.4N 83.8E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 12:0012.5N 83.4E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 18:0012.6N 83.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 00:0013.0N 82.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 06:0013.4N 83.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 12:0013.7N 83.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 18:0014.0N 83.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 00:0014.2N 83.8E15 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 06:0014.5N 84.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 12:0014.8N 84.4E15 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 18:0015.2N 84.7E20 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 00:0015.6N 85.1E20 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 06:0016.2N 85.7E20 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 12:0016.9N 86.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 18:0017.5N 86.8E20 ktNot reported
Oct 20, 00:0018.0N 87.4E20 kt1004 mbNot reported
Oct 20, 06:0018.3N 88.2E25 kt1004 mbNot reported
Oct 20, 12:0018.4N 89.0E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 20, 18:0018.7N 89.8E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Oct 21, 00:0019.3N 90.4E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 21, 06:0020.0N 91.0E30 kt998 mbNot reported
Oct 21, 12:0020.9N 92.1E30 kt996 mbNot reported
Oct 21, 18:0021.7N 93.3E30 kt998 mbNot reported
Oct 22, 00:0022.0N 94.9E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 22, 06:0022.5N 94.5E1004 mbNot reported

Other North 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.