The 1994 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1994)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 16, 1994 and February 23, 1994, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
February 16, 1994 to February 23, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
SH171994

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
Feb 16, 00:0016.2S 124.3E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0016.1S 124.4E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0015.9S 124.5E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0015.7S 124.5E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0015.4S 124.5E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0015.3S 124.4E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0015.2S 124.3E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0015.2S 124.1E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0015.3S 123.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0015.5S 123.5E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0015.9S 123.1E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0016.3S 122.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0016.8S 122.5E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0017.5S 122.1E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 12:0018.1S 121.6E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 19, 18:0018.6S 121.0E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 20, 00:0019.1S 120.5E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 20, 06:0019.6S 120.0E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0020.1S 119.5E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0020.5S 118.9E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0020.9S 118.3E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0021.2S 117.6E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0021.5S 116.9E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0021.7S 116.2E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0021.9S 115.5E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0022.2S 114.8E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0022.7S 114.2E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0023.3S 113.9E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0023.9S 113.8E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0024.4S 114.0E15 ktTropical storm

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.