The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1996)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between December 28, 1995 and December 31, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1996 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
December 28, 1995 to December 31, 1995
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 120 km (75 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
1995363S17051

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 28, 12:0017.3S 50.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 28, 18:0017.8S 51.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 00:0018.3S 51.8E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0018.9S 52.1E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0019.5S 52.0E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0019.9S 52.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0020.5S 52.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 06:0020.9S 52.5E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 12:0021.3S 52.8E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 18:0022.1S 52.9E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 00:0023.2S 52.8E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 06:0024.1S 53.0E25 kt999 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 1996

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.