The 1956 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1956)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 16, 1956 and March 1, 1956, 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 1956 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 16, 1956 to March 1, 1956
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH221956

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 16, 00:0015.0S 123.8ETropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0015.4S 123.1ETropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0016.0S 122.5ETropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0016.6S 122.1ETropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0017.3S 121.9ETropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0018.0S 122.1ETropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0018.7S 122.8ETropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0019.2S 123.7ETropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0019.4S 124.7ETropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0019.6S 125.6ETropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0019.7S 126.5ETropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0019.9S 127.4ETropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0020.0S 128.1ETropical storm
Feb 19, 06:0020.5S 128.8ETropical storm
Feb 19, 12:0021.0S 129.5ETropical storm
Feb 19, 18:0021.4S 130.3ETropical storm
Feb 20, 00:0021.3S 131.0ETropical storm
Feb 20, 06:0021.0S 131.4ETropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0020.6S 131.9ETropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0020.2S 132.4ETropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0020.0S 132.9ETropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0020.2S 133.0ETropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0020.4S 132.9ETropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0020.6S 132.8ETropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0020.8S 132.7ETropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0020.9S 132.6ETropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0020.9S 132.5ETropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0020.9S 132.4ETropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0020.9S 132.3ETropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0020.6S 131.8ETropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0020.2S 131.3ETropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0019.8S 131.0ETropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0019.2S 130.6ETropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0017.6S 128.8ETropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0016.5S 126.5ETropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0016.3S 123.9ETropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0016.7S 121.9ETropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0017.3S 120.9ETropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0017.8S 120.2ETropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0018.3S 119.5ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0018.7S 118.9ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0019.0S 118.4ETropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0019.2S 117.9ETropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0019.5S 117.4ETropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0019.7S 117.0ETropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0019.9S 116.8ETropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0020.0S 116.6ETropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0020.1S 116.3ETropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0020.2S 115.9ETropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0020.4S 115.6ETropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0020.5S 115.2ETropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0020.8S 114.9ETropical storm
Feb 29, 00:0021.2S 114.5ETropical storm
Feb 29, 06:0021.7S 113.9ETropical storm
Feb 29, 12:0022.3S 113.3ETropical storm
Feb 29, 18:0023.1S 112.8ETropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0024.2S 112.3ETropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0025.8S 112.2ETropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0027.2S 112.3ETropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0028.5S 112.9ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1956

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.