The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1996)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 5, 1996 and February 10, 1996.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
February 5, 1996 to February 10, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 881 km (547 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Identifier
SH121996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 5, 18:008.5S 94.9E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:009.0S 94.7E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:009.4S 94.6E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:009.9S 94.4E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0010.3S 94.2E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0010.5S 93.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0010.8S 93.2E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0010.9S 92.5E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0011.1S 92.1E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0011.4S 91.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 06:0011.8S 91.8E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 12:0012.0S 91.8E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 18:0012.2S 91.8E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 9, 00:0012.4S 91.7E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 9, 06:0012.6S 91.5E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 9, 12:0012.7S 91.2E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 9, 18:0012.8S 90.9E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 10, 00:0012.9S 90.3E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 10, 06:0012.9S 89.3E15 ktTropical storm
Feb 10, 12:0012.8S 88.1E15 ktTropical 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.

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.