The 1966 season

Tropical Depression Amanda:Gisele (1966)

Tropical Depression Amanda:Gisele peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between December 21, 1965 and January 2, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Amanda:Gisele, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1966 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
December 21, 1965 to January 2, 1966
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH051966

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
Dec 21, 00:009.6S 134.0ETropical storm
Dec 21, 06:0010.5S 134.5ETropical storm
Dec 21, 12:0011.1S 135.3ETropical storm
Dec 21, 18:0011.4S 136.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 00:0011.5S 137.4ETropical storm
Dec 22, 06:0010.8S 138.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 12:0010.4S 138.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 18:0010.8S 138.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 23, 00:0011.1S 138.8ETropical storm
Dec 23, 06:0010.9S 138.8E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 23, 12:0010.8S 138.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 23, 18:0011.3S 138.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 24, 00:0011.5S 138.3ETropical storm
Dec 24, 06:0011.3S 138.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 24, 12:0011.2S 137.7E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 24, 18:0011.0S 137.3E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 25, 00:0010.9S 136.9E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 25, 06:0010.3S 137.1E1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 25, 12:0010.0S 137.0ETropical storm
Dec 25, 18:0010.0S 136.7E999 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 00:0010.2S 136.3ETropical storm
Dec 26, 06:0010.6S 136.0E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 12:0010.8S 135.6E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 26, 18:0011.0S 135.1E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 00:0011.1S 134.6ETropical storm
Dec 27, 06:0011.3S 134.3E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 12:0011.4S 133.9E998 mbTropical storm
Dec 27, 18:0011.2S 133.7E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 00:0011.0S 133.3E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 06:0011.1S 132.6E996 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 12:0011.5S 131.9E996 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0012.1S 131.4E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0012.7S 131.0E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0012.9S 130.8E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0013.3S 130.5E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0013.7S 130.1E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0014.1S 129.7E997 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 06:0014.5S 129.3E996 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 12:0014.9S 128.9E995 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 18:0015.1S 128.5ETropical storm
Dec 31, 00:0015.3S 127.9ETropical storm
Dec 31, 06:0015.5S 126.9ETropical storm
Dec 31, 12:0015.6S 125.9ETropical storm
Dec 31, 18:0015.9S 124.9ETropical storm
Jan 1, 00:0016.3S 124.0ETropical storm
Jan 1, 06:0016.6S 123.2ETropical storm
Jan 1, 12:0020.8S 120.5ETropical storm
Jan 1, 18:0022.5S 120.3ETropical storm
Jan 2, 00:0024.3S 120.1ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1966

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.