Tropical Storm Kim (1983)
Tropical Storm Kim (international designation: 8315, JTWC designation: 16W) was the only storm of 1983 to move from the Western Pacific basin into the North Indian Ocean basin as it moved across southern Indochina and into the Bay of Bengal as a tropical depression. Although Kim was a weak tropical storm, it still managed to cause 200 deaths and heavy crop damage in Indochina.
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