The 1995 season

Tropical Depression Lidy (1995)

Tropical Depression Lidy peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between March 14, 1995 and March 20, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Depression Lidy, 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
March 14, 1995 to March 20, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 123 km (76 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1995074S16068

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 14, 12:0015.5S 67.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0016.1S 67.1E28 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0016.8S 66.2E28 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0017.6S 65.4E28 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0018.6S 65.2E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0019.4S 64.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0019.8S 64.4E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0020.1S 64.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0020.3S 63.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0020.5S 63.7E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0020.2S 63.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0020.2S 63.4E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0020.9S 63.5E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0021.5S 63.0E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0021.5S 62.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0021.6S 63.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0022.2S 63.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0021.6S 63.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0020.7S 62.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 06:0020.0S 62.7E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 12:0019.8S 62.2EMixed
Mar 19, 18:0019.4S 60.9EMixed
Mar 20, 00:0019.1S 59.7EMixed
Mar 20, 06:0019.0S 58.4EMixed
Mar 20, 12:0019.0S 57.2EMixed
Mar 20, 18:0019.0S 56.2EMixed

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. 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.