The 1999 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1999)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between January 30, 1999 and February 4, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1999 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
North Indian
Dates
January 30, 1999 to February 4, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 416 km (258 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Identifier
IO011999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 30, 12:007.7N 92.0E20 ktNot reported
Jan 30, 18:008.0N 91.8E25 ktNot reported
Jan 31, 00:008.3N 91.2E25 ktNot reported
Jan 31, 06:008.4N 90.6E25 ktNot reported
Jan 31, 12:008.4N 90.0E25 ktNot reported
Jan 31, 18:008.3N 89.2E25 ktNot reported
Feb 1, 00:008.1N 88.5E25 ktNot reported
Feb 1, 06:008.1N 87.7E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:008.2N 87.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:008.6N 86.4E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:009.1N 85.7E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:009.6N 85.2E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 12:0010.0N 84.9E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 18:0010.4N 84.7E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 00:0010.6N 84.6E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0010.8N 84.5E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 12:0011.0N 84.4E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0011.1N 84.3E35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0011.3N 84.2E35 ktNot reported
Feb 4, 06:0011.5N 84.1E35 ktNot reported
Feb 4, 12:0011.8N 84.0E25 ktNot reported
Feb 4, 18:0012.0N 84.0E30 ktNot reported

Other North Indian storms of 1999

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.