The 2008 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2008)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Indian between August 9, 2008 and August 10, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
North Indian
Dates
August 9, 2008 to August 10, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2008223N20086

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 12:0020.0N 86.0E25 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0020.6N 85.8ETropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0021.2N 85.6ETropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0022.0N 85.4ETropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2008

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.