The 1969 season

Tropical Depression Annie (1969)

Tropical Depression Annie peaked at unknown kt in the South Indian between October 28, 1968 and November 4, 1968.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Annie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1969 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
October 28, 1968 to November 4, 1968
Peak strength
Tropical Depression
Landfall
No; closest approach 579 km (360 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH011969

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
Oct 28, 00:005.5S 65.0ETropical storm
Oct 28, 06:005.8S 66.3ETropical storm
Oct 28, 12:006.0S 67.5ETropical storm
Oct 28, 18:005.3S 68.9ETropical storm
Oct 29, 00:006.5S 69.8ETropical storm
Oct 29, 06:007.5S 69.9ETropical storm
Oct 29, 12:008.4S 69.5ETropical storm
Oct 29, 18:009.2S 69.0ETropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0010.1S 68.6ETropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0011.0S 68.1ETropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0011.6S 67.6ETropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0012.1S 67.0ETropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0012.5S 66.5ETropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0012.9S 66.0ETropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0013.1S 65.4ETropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0013.2S 64.8ETropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0013.2S 64.2ETropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0013.0S 63.6ETropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0012.8S 62.9ETropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0012.5S 62.0ETropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0012.2S 61.1ETropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0011.9S 60.2ETropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0011.7S 59.4ETropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0011.4S 58.6ETropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0011.2S 57.8ETropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0010.9S 57.0ETropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0010.2S 57.5ETropical storm
Nov 3, 18:009.9S 56.7ETropical storm
Nov 4, 00:009.5S 55.8ETropical storm
Nov 4, 06:009.0S 54.7ETropical storm
Nov 4, 12:008.6S 53.2ETropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1969

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.