Cyclone Harriet:heather path, 1992

What the record says

Harriet:heather was a cyclone in the South-West Indian basin that lasted about 13 days, from 24 February 1992 to 8 March 1992. Its peak was Category 4 (120 kt) on 1 March 1992, with a 1-minute sustained wind of 120 kt (138 mph, 222 km/h). Its lowest recorded pressure was 930 hPa.

• Category 4peak intensity
• 120 ktpeak wind (138 mph)
• 930 hPalowest pressure
• 13 dayslifetime

Source of the peak wind: US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (southern hemisphere). The regional forecast centre (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) gave a peak of 105 kt on its own averaging convention (10-minute winds), so the two figures differ.

It has its own page because it reached category 4 or stronger.

This page gives the official record's figures. It does not describe the human cost of the storm, which is far larger than any wind speed or pressure here.

Where it came ashore

The record shows no landfall: the storm stayed at sea.

Countries it came within 50 km of

Strongest effect first.

• Australian Indian Ocean Territories

How to read this track

The line joins the storm's six-hourly positions with straight lines, coloured by its intensity at each point, so it shows how the storm strengthened and weakened. The real path curved between the positions. A dashed grey stretch means the storm had become post-tropical. Records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are estimates.

Source: NOAA NCEI IBTrACS, public domain. See data sources and caveats.