The 1968 season

Tropical Depression Flossie (1968)

Tropical Depression Flossie peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between January 7, 1968 and January 14, 1968.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Flossie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1968 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
January 7, 1968 to January 14, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 75 km (47 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH101968

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 7, 06:0016.5S 42.0ETropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0016.6S 41.9ETropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0016.7S 41.7ETropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0016.8S 41.5ETropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0016.8S 42.6ETropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0017.0S 41.9ETropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0017.3S 41.3ETropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0017.6S 40.8ETropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0017.9S 40.3ETropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0018.4S 39.7ETropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0019.0S 39.0ETropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0019.8S 38.3ETropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0020.7S 37.6ETropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0021.4S 37.3ETropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0022.0S 37.2ETropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0022.4S 37.1ETropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0023.0S 37.0ETropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0024.0S 36.5ETropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0025.0S 35.7ETropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0026.0S 34.5ETropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0027.1S 33.8EMixed
Jan 12, 12:0028.6S 35.2ETropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0030.2S 37.0ETropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0031.4S 38.3EMixed
Jan 13, 06:0032.7S 39.7EMixed
Jan 13, 12:0034.1S 41.6EMixed
Jan 13, 18:0035.5S 44.0EMixed
Jan 14, 00:0037.1S 46.7EMixed
Jan 14, 06:0038.9S 49.9EMixed

Other South Indian storms of 1968

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.