The 1993 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1993)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between November 5, 1993 and November 13, 1993, and made landfall.

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
North Indian
Dates
November 5, 1993 to November 13, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
IO011993

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
Nov 5, 00:005.6N 72.4E20 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 06:005.8N 72.7E20 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 12:005.9N 73.1E25 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 18:006.1N 73.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 00:006.2N 74.0E25 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 06:006.3N 74.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 12:006.4N 75.0E30 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 18:006.5N 75.5E30 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 00:006.6N 76.0E30 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 06:006.8N 76.5E30 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 12:007.0N 77.0E30 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 18:007.3N 77.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 00:007.7N 77.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 06:008.1N 77.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 12:008.5N 77.5E20 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 18:008.8N 77.2E20 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 00:009.2N 76.9E20 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 06:009.6N 76.5E20 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 12:0010.0N 75.8E20 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 18:0010.4N 75.0E20 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 00:0010.6N 74.1E20 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 06:0010.8N 73.1E20 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 12:0011.0N 72.1E20 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 18:0011.2N 71.2E20 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 00:0011.5N 70.3E25 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 06:0011.8N 69.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 12:0012.1N 68.5E25 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 18:0012.5N 67.7E25 ktNot reported
Nov 12, 00:0013.1N 67.0E30 ktNot reported
Nov 12, 06:0013.8N 66.3E30 ktNot reported
Nov 12, 12:0014.5N 65.6E35 ktNot reported
Nov 12, 18:0015.3N 64.9E40 ktNot reported
Nov 13, 00:0016.0N 64.3E45 ktNot reported

Other North 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.