The 2000 season

Cyclone Felicia (2000)

Cyclone Felicia reached Category 1 in the South Indian between February 18, 2000 and February 26, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Felicia, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2000 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 18, 2000 to February 26, 2000
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1003 km (623 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.7
Identifier
SH122000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 18, 18:0013.3S 78.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Feb 19, 00:0013.6S 78.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Feb 19, 06:0013.8S 77.8E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Feb 19, 12:0014.1S 77.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 19, 18:0014.5S 77.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 20, 00:0015.0S 76.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 20, 06:0015.3S 76.1E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Feb 20, 12:0015.7S 75.5E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Feb 20, 18:0016.1S 74.8E30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Feb 21, 00:0016.5S 74.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 06:0017.0S 73.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 12:0017.8S 72.4E35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Feb 21, 18:0018.7S 71.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 00:0019.6S 70.0E45 kt987 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 06:0020.7S 69.1E50 kt983 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 12:0021.8S 68.1E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 22, 18:0023.0S 67.2E65 kt975 mbTyphoon
Feb 23, 00:0024.3S 66.5E65 kt975 mbTyphoon
Feb 23, 06:0025.6S 66.0E55 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0026.8S 65.6E40 kt978 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0028.0S 65.3E40 kt983 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0029.1S 64.8E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 06:0030.2S 63.7E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 12:0031.1S 63.5E30 kt995 mbExtratropical
Feb 24, 18:0031.6S 63.4E30 kt996 mbExtratropical
Feb 25, 00:0031.9S 63.6E30 kt997 mbExtratropical
Feb 25, 06:0032.1S 63.9E25 kt999 mbExtratropical
Feb 25, 12:0031.4S 64.4E25 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Feb 25, 18:0030.8S 64.2E20 kt1003 mbExtratropical
Feb 26, 00:0030.2S 63.8E20 kt1005 mbExtratropical
Feb 26, 06:0029.5S 63.2E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Feb 26, 12:0028.8S 62.5E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 2000

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.