North Indian Ocean
Due to differences in wind speed criteria between the India Meteorological Department and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, a system will sometimes be considered a tropical storm by the JTWC but only a depression by the IMD. This results in several apparent unnamed systems. Because the IMD is responsible for naming, "unnamed tropical cyclones" that met the JTWC's tropical storm criteria but not those of the IMD are excluded.
Naming has taken place since mid-2003.
There have been no unnamed tropical cyclones using the India Meteorological Department's criteria. One system, 2007's Yemyin, was upgraded after the fact and retroactively named.
Read more about this topic: List Of Unnamed Tropical Cyclones
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