The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Edmea (1994)

Tropical Storm Edmea peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between January 11, 1994 and January 19, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 976 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Edmea. 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 11, 1994 to January 19, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
976 mb (28.82 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 730 km (454 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.5
Identifier
SH101994

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 11, 12:009.4S 74.6E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 11, 18:009.6S 74.0E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 00:009.8S 73.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0010.1S 73.1E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0010.4S 72.8E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0010.8S 72.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0011.3S 72.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0011.8S 72.3E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0012.1S 71.6E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0012.4S 71.0E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0012.5S 70.3E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0012.6S 69.4E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0013.0S 68.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0013.5S 68.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0014.2S 68.0E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0014.9S 67.5E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0015.7S 67.0E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0016.6S 66.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0017.6S 66.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0018.6S 66.8E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0019.7S 66.3E45 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0020.7S 65.1E45 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0021.6S 64.7E45 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0022.7S 64.4E40 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0023.5S 64.3E40 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0024.2S 64.3E35 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0025.4S 64.5E35 kt976 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0026.8S 65.1E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0027.9S 66.2E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0028.7S 68.0E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0029.6S 71.0E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0030.3S 74.1E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0030.1S 77.3EExtratropical
Jan 19, 18:0030.2S 80.5EExtratropical

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.