The 1999 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1999)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between March 3, 1999 and March 10, 1999.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
March 3, 1999 to March 10, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 208 km (129 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.1
Identifier
SH261999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 3, 00:0012.0S 121.4E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 06:0012.2S 120.6E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 12:0012.5S 120.0E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 3, 18:0012.8S 119.2E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 00:0013.3S 117.9E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 06:0013.8S 116.3E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 12:0014.0S 114.7E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 4, 18:0014.4S 113.4E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 00:0014.5S 111.6E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 06:0014.2S 109.6E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 12:0013.8S 107.8E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 5, 18:0013.7S 106.0E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 00:0013.9S 104.4E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 06:0014.2S 102.8E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 12:0014.1S 101.6E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 6, 18:0014.8S 99.9E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 00:0014.9S 98.5E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 06:0014.9S 97.2E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 12:0014.6S 96.0E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 7, 18:0014.5S 94.7E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 00:0014.8S 93.8E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 06:0014.8S 92.0E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 12:0014.5S 90.2E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 8, 18:0014.5S 88.5E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 9, 00:0013.9S 86.4E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 9, 06:0013.3S 84.7E30 ktNot reported
Mar 9, 12:0013.1S 82.7E30 ktNot reported
Mar 9, 18:0012.8S 80.9E25 ktNot reported
Mar 10, 00:0012.5S 78.6E25 ktNot reported
Mar 10, 06:0012.4S 76.0E25 ktNot reported
Mar 10, 12:0012.7S 73.0E25 ktNot reported
Mar 10, 18:0013.0S 70.9E25 ktNot reported

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.