The 2008 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2008)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the North Indian between October 19, 2008 and October 23, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
October 19, 2008 to October 23, 2008
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
IO032008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 19, 12:009.0N 59.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:009.3N 58.6ETropical storm
Oct 20, 00:009.6N 57.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 20, 06:009.9N 56.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 12:0010.2N 55.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:0010.5N 55.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0010.7N 54.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 06:0010.9N 54.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0011.7N 54.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 18:0012.8N 54.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:0013.3N 53.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0013.5N 53.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0013.7N 52.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:0013.7N 52.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0013.7N 51.4E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0013.8N 50.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0014.1N 50.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 18:0015.0N 49.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression

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.