The 1992 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1992)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the North Indian between December 18, 1992 and December 24, 1992, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
December 18, 1992 to December 24, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.8
Identifier
IO121992

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
Dec 18, 12:002.6N 74.5E25 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 18:002.7N 73.7E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 00:002.9N 72.9E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 06:003.3N 72.2E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 12:003.6N 71.5E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 18:004.0N 70.9E25 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 00:004.4N 70.4E30 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 06:004.7N 69.9E30 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 12:005.0N 69.4E30 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 18:005.5N 68.6E35 ktNot reported
Dec 21, 00:005.8N 67.6E40 ktNot reported
Dec 21, 06:006.0N 66.4E40 ktNot reported
Dec 21, 12:006.2N 65.0E40 ktNot reported
Dec 21, 18:006.3N 63.6E40 ktNot reported
Dec 22, 00:006.2N 62.1E40 ktNot reported
Dec 22, 06:006.0N 60.5E40 ktNot reported
Dec 22, 12:006.1N 58.9E40 ktNot reported
Dec 22, 18:006.4N 57.4E45 ktNot reported
Dec 23, 00:006.9N 56.0E45 ktNot reported
Dec 23, 06:007.3N 54.6E45 ktNot reported
Dec 23, 12:007.6N 53.3E50 ktNot reported
Dec 23, 18:008.0N 52.0E50 ktNot reported
Dec 24, 00:008.2N 51.2E50 ktNot reported
Dec 24, 06:008.6N 50.3E45 ktNot reported
Dec 24, 12:009.0N 49.6E25 ktNot reported
Dec 24, 18:009.4N 49.0E15 ktNot 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.