The 1980 season

Tropical Depression Ivanne (1980)

Tropical Depression Ivanne peaked at 29 kt in the South Indian between January 24, 1980 and January 26, 1980, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Ivanne, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1980 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 24, 1980 to January 26, 1980
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 29 kt (33 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1960 km (1218 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1980024S11076

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 24, 06:0011.0S 76.0E29 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0011.3S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 24, 18:0011.9S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 25, 00:0012.2S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 25, 06:0012.7S 76.0E29 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0013.0S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 25, 18:0013.5S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 26, 00:0014.0S 76.0ENot reported
Jan 26, 06:0014.5S 76.0EDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 1980

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.