The 2013 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2013)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 25 kt in the North Indian between May 29, 2013 and May 31, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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
May 29, 2013 to May 31, 2013
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 25 kt (29 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2013149N21090

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
May 29, 06:0021.3N 89.3E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
May 29, 12:0021.7N 88.8E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 29, 18:0022.1N 88.4E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 30, 00:0022.2N 87.8E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 30, 06:0022.3N 87.5E20 kt990 mbTropical storm
May 30, 12:0022.7N 87.3E20 kt990 mbTropical storm
May 30, 18:0022.8N 87.2ENot reported
May 31, 00:0023.5N 87.1E20 kt990 mbTropical storm
May 31, 06:0024.5N 87.0E20 kt994 mbTropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2013

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.