The 1965 season

Tropical Depression Lesley (1965)

Tropical Depression Lesley peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between February 20, 1965 and February 26, 1965.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Lesley, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1965 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 20, 1965 to February 26, 1965
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 257 km (160 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH281965

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 20, 06:0018.8S 41.7ETropical storm
Feb 20, 12:0019.2S 41.6ETropical storm
Feb 20, 18:0019.5S 41.5ETropical storm
Feb 21, 00:0019.7S 41.4ETropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0020.0S 41.3ETropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0020.2S 41.2ETropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0020.5S 41.2ETropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0020.8S 41.2ETropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0021.1S 41.1ETropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0021.3S 41.0ETropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0021.5S 40.9ETropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0021.7S 40.8ETropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0022.2S 40.7ETropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0023.0S 40.6ETropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0023.9S 40.5ETropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0024.8S 40.4ETropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0025.7S 40.2EMixed
Feb 24, 12:0026.5S 40.1ETropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0027.3S 39.9ETropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0028.1S 39.8ETropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0029.0S 39.6ETropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0030.4S 39.5ETropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0032.0S 39.6ETropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0033.4S 40.3ETropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0034.8S 41.8ETropical 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.