The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Monty (1993)

Tropical Storm Monty peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between April 6, 1993 and April 15, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Monty, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1993 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
April 6, 1993 to April 15, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 514 km (319 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH251993

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 6, 00:0010.5S 101.0E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 06:0010.6S 101.4ETropical storm
Apr 6, 12:0010.8S 101.8ETropical storm
Apr 6, 18:0010.9S 102.1ETropical storm
Apr 7, 00:0011.0S 102.5E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 06:0011.1S 102.9ETropical storm
Apr 7, 12:0011.2S 103.2ETropical storm
Apr 7, 18:0011.3S 103.6ETropical storm
Apr 8, 00:0011.5S 104.0E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 06:0011.6S 104.5ETropical storm
Apr 8, 12:0011.9S 105.0ETropical storm
Apr 8, 18:0012.5S 104.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 00:0012.8S 104.8E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 06:0013.1S 105.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 12:0013.5S 105.4E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 18:0014.1S 105.8E20 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 00:0014.6S 106.0E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 06:0015.0S 105.9E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 12:0015.5S 105.6E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 18:0016.1S 105.5E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 00:0016.7S 105.7E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 06:0017.5S 106.2E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 12:0018.2S 106.8E50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 18:0018.8S 107.5E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 00:0019.1S 108.1E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 06:0019.3S 108.3E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 12:0019.5S 108.4E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Apr 12, 18:0019.5S 108.0E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 00:0019.6S 107.6E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 06:0019.8S 107.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 13, 12:0020.2S 107.1E20 ktTropical storm
Apr 13, 18:0020.6S 107.0E20 ktTropical storm
Apr 14, 00:0021.0S 107.0E15 ktTropical storm
Apr 14, 06:0021.4S 107.0E15 ktTropical storm
Apr 14, 12:0021.8S 107.1E15 ktTropical storm
Apr 14, 18:0022.4S 107.3E15 ktTropical storm
Apr 15, 00:0022.9S 107.6E15 ktTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1993

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.