The 1965 season

Tropical Depression Iris (1965)

Tropical Depression Iris peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 17, 1965 and January 28, 1965, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Depression Iris. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
January 17, 1965 to January 28, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH191965

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
Jan 17, 18:0016.5S 53.6ETropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0015.7S 54.7ETropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0015.2S 55.2ETropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0015.1S 55.1ETropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0015.0S 55.0ETropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0015.0S 54.9ETropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0015.0S 54.6ETropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0015.1S 53.9ETropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0015.3S 53.2ETropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0015.5S 52.6ETropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0015.9S 52.0ETropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0016.4S 51.2ETropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0017.0S 50.3ETropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0017.6S 49.6ETropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0018.1S 49.1EMixed
Jan 21, 12:0018.4S 48.7ETropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0018.7S 48.4ETropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0019.0S 48.0ETropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0019.3S 47.6EMixed
Jan 22, 12:0019.5S 47.1ETropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0019.8S 46.5ETropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0020.2S 46.1ETropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0020.8S 46.0EMixed
Jan 23, 12:0021.4S 46.1ETropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0022.0S 46.3ETropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0022.4S 46.4ETropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0022.7S 46.5EMixed
Jan 24, 12:0023.2S 46.7ETropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0023.7S 46.9ETropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0024.2S 47.0ETropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0024.8S 47.0EMixed
Jan 25, 12:0025.5S 47.2EMixed
Jan 25, 18:0026.3S 47.4EMixed
Jan 26, 00:0026.9S 47.7EMixed
Jan 26, 06:0027.6S 48.2EMixed
Jan 26, 12:0028.2S 49.1EMixed
Jan 26, 18:0028.9S 50.0EMixed
Jan 27, 00:0029.4S 50.7EMixed
Jan 27, 06:0029.8S 51.5EMixed
Jan 27, 12:0030.4S 52.7ETropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0031.0S 54.0ETropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0031.5S 55.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0031.9S 56.0ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1965

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.