The 2004 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2004)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the North Indian between September 30, 2004 and October 10, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2004 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
September 30, 2004 to October 10, 2004
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
IO032004

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 30, 06:0016.3N 69.0E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Sep 30, 12:0017.1N 68.2E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Sep 30, 18:0017.8N 67.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 00:0018.5N 67.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 06:0019.2N 66.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 12:0019.9N 66.4E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 18:0020.5N 66.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0021.0N 66.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 06:0021.5N 67.2E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 12:0022.1N 67.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 18:0022.6N 68.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 00:0022.9N 68.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 06:0023.3N 68.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 12:0023.4N 67.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 18:0023.1N 67.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 4, 00:0022.5N 67.4E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 4, 06:0021.9N 67.3E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 4, 12:0021.3N 67.2E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 4, 18:0020.8N 67.2E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 5, 00:0020.4N 67.7E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 5, 06:0019.9N 67.8E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 5, 12:0019.4N 67.8E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Oct 5, 18:0019.1N 67.9E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 6, 00:0018.8N 68.0E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 6, 06:0018.6N 68.0E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 6, 12:0018.4N 68.1E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 6, 18:0018.2N 68.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 00:0018.0N 68.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 06:0017.9N 68.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 12:0018.1N 68.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 18:0018.3N 68.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 00:0018.6N 68.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 06:0018.9N 68.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 12:0019.1N 68.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 18:0019.4N 68.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 00:0019.6N 69.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 06:0019.9N 69.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 12:0020.4N 69.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 18:0020.9N 70.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 10, 00:0021.0N 70.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression

Other North Indian storms of 2004

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.