The 2003 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2003)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Indian between July 25, 2003 and July 28, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2003 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
July 25, 2003 to July 28, 2003
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2003206N21089

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 25, 06:0021.2N 88.7ETropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0021.5N 88.0E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0021.8N 87.3ETropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0021.9N 86.5ETropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0022.0N 85.4ETropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0022.0N 84.0E30 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0022.1N 82.5ETropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0022.4N 80.8ETropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0022.7N 79.1ETropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0023.0N 77.5E25 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0023.4N 76.7ETropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0023.8N 76.5ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2003

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.