Tropical Storm Judith:Martha (1966)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

February 23, 1966 to March 8, 1966

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)

Lowest pressure

992 mb (29.29 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 828 km (514 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

1.3

Identifier

SH261966

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression AnneSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression BrendaSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression AliceSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression Amanda:GiseleSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression990 mb
• Tropical Depression ClaudeSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression Carol-DaisySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression25 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Depression Carol-DaisySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression30 kt · 999 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression DeniseSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression JoySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression995 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression EvelynSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression FrancineSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression LisaSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression990 mb
• Tropical Depression GermaineSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression HilarySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Depression IvySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm Kay:NancySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Storm40 kt · 995 mb
• Cyclone NellieSouth Indian · 1966Cat 170 kt · 987 mb
• Tropical Depression SandraSouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression1001 mb
• Tropical Depression ShirleySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression965 mb
• Tropical Depression LilySouth Indian · 1966Tropical Depression

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.