The 1911 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1911)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between March 11, 1911 and March 19, 1911.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
March 11, 1911 to March 19, 1911
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 123 km (76 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1911070S19059

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 11, 00:0018.8S 58.6ETropical storm
Mar 11, 06:0018.9S 58.3ETropical storm
Mar 11, 12:0018.9S 58.0ETropical storm
Mar 11, 18:0019.0S 57.6ETropical storm
Mar 12, 00:0019.0S 57.2ETropical storm
Mar 12, 06:0019.1S 56.8ETropical storm
Mar 12, 12:0019.2S 56.4ETropical storm
Mar 12, 18:0019.2S 56.0ETropical storm
Mar 13, 00:0019.3S 55.6ETropical storm
Mar 13, 06:0019.4S 55.2ETropical storm
Mar 13, 12:0019.6S 54.8ETropical storm
Mar 13, 18:0019.7S 54.4ETropical storm
Mar 14, 00:0019.8S 54.0ETropical storm
Mar 14, 06:0019.9S 53.7ETropical storm
Mar 14, 12:0020.1S 53.5ETropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0020.3S 53.3ETropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0020.4S 53.0ETropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0020.7S 52.7ETropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0021.0S 52.4ETropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0021.4S 52.3ETropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0021.8S 52.4ETropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0022.1S 52.7ETropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0022.3S 53.0ETropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0022.5S 53.3ETropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0022.6S 53.6ETropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0022.8S 53.9ETropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0022.9S 54.3ETropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0023.0S 54.6ETropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0023.2S 55.0ETropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0023.4S 55.6ETropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0023.5S 56.2ETropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0023.6S 56.6ETropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0023.8S 57.0ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1911

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.