Tropical Storm Cecile (1963)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

December 16, 1962 to December 29, 1962

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 239 km (149 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.5

Identifier

SH051963

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.

• Tropical Storm AmySouth Indian · 1963Tropical Storm40 kt
• Tropical Depression BerthaSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression980 mb
• Cyclone DeliaSouth Indian · 1963Cat 170 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression987 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression1000 mb
• Tropical Depression EmmaSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression940 mb
• Tropical Depression FannySouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression990 mb
• Tropical Depression GraceSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Storm45 kt · 995 mb
• Tropical Depression HildaSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression IreneSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression JulieSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1963Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb

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.

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.