Manipur, India: storm history

17 storms have passed within 50 km of Manipur from 1891 to 2016. The map shows India; search for a town in Manipur to see storms near it.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Manipur

The record holds 17 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Manipur, India between 1891 and 2016. The busiest month is May, with 7 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 3 strength. 8 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 17storms within 50 km
  • 1major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 3at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Manipur?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression16%
Tropical storm529%
Category 116%
Category 216%
Category 316%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity847%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (Indian Ocean).

Manipur storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 5 in 1990s.1890s11930s11950s11960s31970s21980s11990s52000s12010s2

The 2010s only run to 2016, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1891, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1890s1
1930s1
1950s1
1960s3
1970s2
1980s1
1990s5
2000s1
2010s2

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 7 in May.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr1May7Jun1Jul0Aug0Sep1Oct5Nov2Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May7
Jun1
Jul0
Aug0
Sep1
Oct5
Nov2
Dec0

Strongest storms near Manipur

  • Unnamed storm of April 1991 (North Indian)22 April 1991 to 30 April 1991, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 918 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of May 1997 (North Indian)13 May 1997 to 20 May 1997, Category 2 (90 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 964 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 1997 (North Indian)19 September 1997 to 27 September 1997, peak Category 1 (65 kt), 984 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of May 1998 (North Indian)13 May 1998 to 20 May 1998, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (70 kt), 972 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of May 1991 (North Indian)30 May 1991 to 3 June 1991, peak Tropical storm (50 kt), 990 hPa

Most recent storms near Manipur

  • Roanu (2016)17 May 2016 to 22 May 2016, peak Tropical storm (60 kt), 983 hPa
  • Mahasen:viyaru (2013)9 May 2013 to 16 May 2013, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 990 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 2000 (North Indian)25 October 2000 to 29 October 2000, Tropical depression (28 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (35 kt), 998 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

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