The 1999 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1999)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between March 11, 1999 and March 21, 1999, with a lowest pressure of 995 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
South Indian
Dates
March 11, 1999 to March 21, 1999
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1287 km (800 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.6
Identifier
SH291999

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 11, 18:0014.7S 86.9E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 00:0014.5S 85.8E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 06:0014.4S 85.0E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 12:0013.9S 84.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 18:0013.4S 83.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 00:0012.9S 82.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 06:0012.7S 81.1E20 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 12:0012.6S 79.8E23 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 18:0012.7S 78.9E23 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 00:0012.7S 78.1E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 06:0012.5S 77.5E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 12:0012.3S 77.0E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0012.0S 76.6E23 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0012.0S 76.4E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0012.2S 75.9E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0012.4S 75.2E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0012.5S 74.8E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0012.7S 74.5E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0012.8S 74.3E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0013.0S 74.1E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0013.2S 73.9E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0013.4S 73.8E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0013.6S 73.6E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0013.9S 73.1E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0014.2S 73.0E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0014.4S 73.1E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0014.6S 73.3E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0014.8S 73.7E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0015.1S 74.2E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0015.4S 74.4E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 06:0015.8S 74.5E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 12:0016.1S 74.4E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 18:0017.3S 71.4E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 00:0017.9S 70.7E23 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 06:0018.3S 70.3E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 12:0018.7S 70.0E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 18:0019.2S 70.1E1003 mbMixed
Mar 21, 00:0019.9S 70.2E1004 mbMixed

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.