The 1994 season

Cyclone Daisy (1994)

Cyclone Daisy reached Category 2 in the South Indian between January 7, 1994 and January 17, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Cyclone Daisy. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
January 7, 1994 to January 17, 1994
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.0
Identifier
SH081994

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
Jan 7, 00:0015.6S 56.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 06:0015.6S 56.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0015.7S 57.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0015.8S 57.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0015.9S 57.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0016.1S 57.6E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0016.2S 57.6E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0015.9S 58.2E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0015.6S 58.8E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0015.4S 59.5E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0015.5S 60.3E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0015.6S 60.6E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0015.8S 60.7E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0016.1S 60.6E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0016.3S 60.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0016.4S 59.8E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0016.5S 59.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0016.7S 58.5E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0016.8S 57.6E45 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0016.9S 56.7E45 kt970 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0017.0S 55.9E55 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0017.2S 55.2E65 kt960 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0017.4S 54.1E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0017.8S 52.9E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0018.1S 51.7E85 kt950 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0018.8S 50.4E90 kt940 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0019.4S 49.4E95 kt935 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0019.9S 48.4E80 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0020.3S 47.5E60 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0020.7S 46.7E40 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0021.1S 46.0E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0021.6S 45.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0022.0S 44.4E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0022.6S 43.6E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0022.7S 43.2E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0023.1S 43.1E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0023.6S 43.3E20 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0023.9S 43.6E20 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0024.5S 44.0ENot reported
Jan 16, 18:0024.3S 44.0ENot reported
Jan 17, 00:0023.5S 43.9ENot reported

Other South Indian storms of 1994

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.