The 2000 season

Tropical Storm Olga (2000)

Tropical Storm Olga peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between March 14, 2000 and March 20, 2000, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Olga, 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
March 14, 2000 to March 20, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 335 km (208 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH202000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 14, 18:0017.1S 118.6E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0017.2S 117.9E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0017.2S 117.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0016.9S 115.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0016.7S 115.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0016.6S 114.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0016.5S 114.1E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0016.5S 113.6E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0016.6S 113.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0016.8S 112.8E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0017.1S 112.2E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0017.5S 111.2E35 kt993 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0017.8S 110.4E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0018.3S 109.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0019.1S 108.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0020.0S 107.8E45 kt986 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0020.7S 107.1E35 kt991 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0021.1S 105.9E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 06:0022.0S 105.2E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 12:0023.1S 104.6E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 18:0024.1S 104.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 00:0023.7S 103.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm

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.