The 2023 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2023)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between July 30, 2023 and August 3, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 981 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 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
July 30, 2023 to August 3, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
981 mb (28.97 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
IO042023

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 30, 12:0019.0N 90.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0018.7N 90.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0018.6N 91.0E30 kt984 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0018.6N 91.3E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 12:0019.0N 91.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0019.9N 92.0E40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0019.9N 92.0E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0021.6N 90.7E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0022.1N 89.8E30 kt981 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 18:0022.7N 88.6E25 kt982 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 00:0023.0N 87.3E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 06:0023.3N 85.8E20 kt992 mbDisturbance
Aug 2, 12:0023.3N 85.1E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0023.3N 84.1E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0023.4N 83.4E25 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0023.5N 83.1E20 kt993 mbTropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2023

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.