The 1959 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1959)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between March 13, 1959 and March 24, 1959, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1959 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
March 13, 1959 to March 24, 1959
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH261959

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 13, 06:0012.6S 65.0ETropical storm
Mar 13, 12:0012.7S 64.6ETropical storm
Mar 13, 18:0012.8S 64.2ETropical storm
Mar 14, 00:0012.8S 63.8ETropical storm
Mar 14, 06:0012.9S 63.2ETropical storm
Mar 14, 12:0012.9S 62.5ETropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0013.0S 61.7ETropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0013.0S 61.0ETropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0013.0S 60.2ETropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0013.0S 59.0ETropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0013.1S 57.6ETropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0013.2S 56.3ETropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0013.4S 55.2ETropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0013.6S 54.3ETropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0013.8S 53.4ETropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0014.1S 52.5ETropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0014.3S 51.6ETropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0014.5S 51.1ETropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0014.6S 50.8ETropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0014.8S 50.3ETropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0015.0S 49.9ETropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0015.2S 49.7ETropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0015.5S 49.5ETropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0015.7S 49.3ETropical storm
Mar 19, 06:0016.0S 49.2ETropical storm
Mar 19, 12:0016.3S 49.1ETropical storm
Mar 19, 18:0016.6S 49.0ETropical storm
Mar 20, 00:0017.0S 49.0ETropical storm
Mar 20, 06:0017.4S 49.1ETropical storm
Mar 20, 12:0017.8S 49.2ETropical storm
Mar 20, 18:0018.1S 49.4ETropical storm
Mar 21, 00:0018.2S 49.5ETropical storm
Mar 21, 06:0018.4S 49.7ETropical storm
Mar 21, 12:0018.9S 50.1ETropical storm
Mar 21, 18:0019.5S 50.7ETropical storm
Mar 22, 00:0019.9S 51.1ETropical storm
Mar 22, 06:0020.3S 51.2ETropical storm
Mar 22, 12:0020.7S 51.0ETropical storm
Mar 22, 18:0021.1S 50.7ETropical storm
Mar 23, 00:0021.3S 50.4ETropical storm
Mar 23, 06:0021.3S 50.0ETropical storm
Mar 23, 12:0021.3S 49.5ETropical storm
Mar 23, 18:0021.3S 48.9ETropical storm
Mar 24, 00:0021.3S 48.4ETropical storm
Mar 24, 06:0021.4S 47.8ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1959

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.