The 1994 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1994)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between October 28, 1994 and October 31, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1994 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
October 28, 1994 to October 31, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
IO041994

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
Oct 28, 12:0011.0N 85.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 18:0011.2N 85.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 00:0011.4N 84.9E20 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 06:0011.5N 84.5E25 kt1004 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 12:0011.6N 84.0E25 kt1003 mbNot reported
Oct 29, 18:0011.7N 83.4E25 kt1005 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 00:0011.8N 82.8E30 kt1004 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 06:0011.9N 82.1E30 kt1000 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 12:0012.1N 81.4E35 kt992 mbNot reported
Oct 30, 18:0012.4N 80.7E40 kt990 mbNot reported
Oct 31, 00:0012.8N 80.1E45 kt988 mbNot reported
Oct 31, 06:0013.3N 79.6E30 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 12:0013.9N 79.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 18:0014.6N 79.0E15 ktNot reported

Other North 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.