The 2008 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2008)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between September 15, 2008 and September 19, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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 15, 2008 to September 19, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
IO022008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 15, 06:0019.7N 88.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 15, 12:0019.6N 88.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 15, 18:0019.8N 88.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 00:0020.1N 87.8E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Sep 16, 06:0020.5N 87.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0021.0N 87.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0021.2N 86.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0021.3N 86.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0021.6N 85.4E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0021.9N 84.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0022.0N 83.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0022.1N 83.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0022.4N 82.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0022.8N 82.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0023.2N 81.6ETropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0023.9N 80.8ETropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0025.2N 80.2ETropical 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.

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.