The 1955 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1955)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 18, 1955 and February 24, 1955, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1955 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
February 18, 1955 to February 24, 1955
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH151955

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
Feb 18, 00:0014.1S 133.4ETropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0015.8S 131.7ETropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0016.8S 129.9ETropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0017.4S 127.6ETropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0017.6S 125.5ETropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0017.5S 123.7ETropical storm
Feb 19, 12:0017.5S 121.9ETropical storm
Feb 19, 18:0017.6S 120.1ETropical storm
Feb 20, 00:0017.6S 118.4ETropical storm
Feb 20, 06:0017.5S 116.9ETropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0017.5S 115.4ETropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0017.6S 113.8ETropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0017.7S 112.1ETropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0017.9S 110.5ETropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0018.1S 108.9ETropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0018.5S 107.4ETropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0018.7S 105.8ETropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0018.8S 104.3ETropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0018.9S 102.7ETropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0019.0S 101.2ETropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0019.0S 99.8ETropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0019.3S 99.0ETropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0019.8S 98.6ETropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0020.4S 98.2ETropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0021.1S 98.0ETropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0021.9S 98.1ETropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0022.6S 98.3ETropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0023.4S 98.7ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1955

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.