Cyclone Gail (1995)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

January 31, 1995 to February 12, 1995

Peak strength

Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)

Lowest pressure

970 mb (28.64 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 289 km (180 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

12.2

Identifier

SH101995

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1995Tropical Depression30 kt · 995 mb
• Cyclone AlbertineSouth Indian · 1995Cat 4115 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone AnnetteSouth Indian · 1995Cat 3110 kt · 925 mb
• Tropical Storm ChristelleSouth Indian · 1995Tropical Storm40 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm BenthaSouth Indian · 1995Tropical Storm55 kt · 984 mb
• Cyclone DorinaSouth Indian · 1995Cat 3100 kt · 925 mb
• Tropical Storm FodahSouth Indian · 1995Tropical Storm45 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm HeidaSouth Indian · 1995Tropical Storm40 kt · 990 mb
• Cyclone BobbySouth Indian · 1995Cat 3110 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone IngridSouth Indian · 1995Cat 3100 kt · 945 mb
• Cyclone JostaSouth Indian · 1995Cat 165 kt · 972 mb
• Cyclone KylieSouth Indian · 1995Cat 285 kt · 984 mb
• Tropical Depression LidySouth Indian · 1995Tropical Depression30 kt · 996 mb
• Cyclone MarleneSouth Indian · 1995Cat 4125 kt · 920 mb
• Cyclone ChloeSouth Indian · 1995Cat 4125 kt · 920 mb

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.