The 2000 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2000)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between January 18, 2000 and January 23, 2000, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
January 18, 2000 to January 23, 2000
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SH062000

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 18, 18:0011.1S 126.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0011.4S 126.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0011.7S 125.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0012.3S 124.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0012.7S 123.0E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0013.4S 121.6E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0014.3S 120.2E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0015.3S 118.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0016.0S 117.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0016.4S 116.4E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0016.9S 115.8E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0017.5S 115.5E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0017.9S 115.5E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0018.5S 115.5E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 06:0018.9S 115.6E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 12:0019.2S 116.1E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 18:0019.9S 116.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jan 23, 00:0020.7S 117.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 23, 06:0021.5S 118.5E20 ktTropical 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.