The 1999 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1999)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between February 24, 1999 and March 1, 1999.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
South Indian
Dates
February 24, 1999 to March 1, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 40 km (25 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH231999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 24, 18:0020.4S 35.4E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0020.5S 35.6E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0020.6S 35.8E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0020.7S 36.0E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0020.7S 36.2E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0020.7S 36.4E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0020.7S 36.6E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0020.7S 36.9E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0020.7S 37.3E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0020.9S 37.9E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0021.1S 38.5E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0021.6S 39.3E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0022.0S 39.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0022.2S 40.5E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0022.6S 41.4E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0022.9S 42.0E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0023.5S 42.6E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0024.5S 43.2E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0025.6S 44.1E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0026.9S 45.2E25 ktTropical storm

Other South 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.