The 1993 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1993)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 37 kt in the South Indian between December 26, 1992 and December 30, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
December 26, 1992 to December 30, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 37 kt (43 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 113 km (70 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1992361S23039

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 26, 00:0022.7S 39.1E30 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0022.9S 40.7E30 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0024.2S 41.6E33 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 26, 18:0023.8S 41.2E37 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 27, 00:0023.9S 40.9E33 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 27, 06:0023.9S 41.5E30 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 27, 12:0025.0S 42.4E27 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 27, 18:0025.8S 43.2E27 kt998 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 28, 00:0026.4S 44.2E27 kt998 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 28, 06:0026.7S 45.0E27 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 28, 12:0027.2S 46.4E23 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0027.6S 47.5E23 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0028.0S 48.8E23 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0028.8S 50.4E23 kt1002 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0029.8S 52.2E23 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0030.5S 53.2E23 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0031.4S 54.3E23 kt1005 mbSubtropical 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. 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.