Cyclone Hudhud (2014)
Cyclone Hudhud reached Category 4 in the North Indian between October 6, 2014 and October 14, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 937 mb, and made landfall. It killed 124 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Cyclone Hudhud, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Indian
- Dates
- October 6, 2014 to October 14, 2014
- Peak strength
- Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 937 mb (27.67 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 13.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 25 kt (29 mph)
- Identifier
- IO032014
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
124 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 06:00 | 10.7N 96.1E | 15 kt | 1010 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 6, 12:00 | 10.7N 95.9E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Oct 6, 18:00 | 10.8N 95.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 00:00 | 11.0N 95.2E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 06:00 | 11.2N 94.7E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 12:00 | 11.4N 94.2E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 7, 18:00 | 11.8N 93.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 8, 00:00 | 12.2N 92.7E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 06:00 | 12.6N 91.7E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 12:00 | 13.0N 90.7E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 8, 18:00 | 13.3N 90.0E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 00:00 | 13.5N 89.4E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 06:00 | 13.7N 88.9E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 12:00 | 14.0N 88.5E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 9, 18:00 | 14.3N 88.1E | 60 kt | 978 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 10, 00:00 | 14.7N 87.7E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 06:00 | 15.0N 87.3E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 12:00 | 15.4N 86.9E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 10, 18:00 | 15.7N 86.2E | 85 kt | 959 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 11, 00:00 | 15.8N 85.7E | 95 kt | 952 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 11, 06:00 | 16.1N 85.2E | 105 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 11, 12:00 | 16.2N 84.9E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 11, 18:00 | 16.7N 84.6E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 12, 00:00 | 17.1N 84.1E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 12, 06:00 | 17.6N 83.4E | 115 kt | 937 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 12, 12:00 | 18.0N 82.9E | 105 kt | 944 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 12, 18:00 | 18.8N 82.2E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Oct 13, 00:00 | 19.9N 81.6E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 06:00 | 21.0N 81.3E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 13, 12:00 | 22.0N 81.2E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 13, 18:00 | 22.3N 81.5E | 25 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 00:00 | 24.8N 81.5E | 25 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 14, 06:00 | 25.6N 81.7E | 20 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
Other North Indian storms of 2014
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2014
- Tropical Storm NanaukNorth Indian · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2014
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2014
- Cyclone NilofarNorth Indian · 2014 · 4 deaths
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 2014
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.