The 1995 season

Tropical Storm Heida (1995)

Tropical Storm Heida peaked at 40 kt in the South Indian between January 31, 1995 and February 8, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Heida, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 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 31, 1995 to February 8, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1024 km (636 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
SH111995

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 31, 18:0010.0S 95.0E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0010.5S 95.1E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0010.9S 95.2E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0011.3S 95.3E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0011.6S 95.5E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0011.9S 95.7E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0012.2S 95.8E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 12:0012.5S 95.9E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 18:0012.9S 95.8E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 00:0013.3S 95.5E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0013.7S 95.0E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 12:0014.1S 94.4E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0014.5S 93.7E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0015.0S 92.8E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 06:0015.5S 91.9E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 12:0016.0S 91.0E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0016.5S 90.0E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0016.9S 88.8E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0017.3S 87.5E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0017.6S 86.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0018.1S 84.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0018.5S 83.4E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0018.8S 82.0E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0019.1S 80.5E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0019.4S 78.9E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0019.7S 77.2E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0020.1S 75.7E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0020.6S 74.3E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0021.3S 73.1E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0022.2S 72.1E25 kt1002 mbMixed

Other South Indian storms of 1995

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.