The 2001 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2001)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between January 30, 2001 and February 6, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 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 30, 2001 to February 6, 2001
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1035 km (643 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2001031S13072

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 30, 12:0013.1S 71.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0013.4S 71.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0013.7S 71.2E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0014.1S 71.0E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0014.9S 70.3E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0015.4S 70.0E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0015.7S 69.7E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0016.1S 69.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0016.8S 69.1E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0018.3S 68.9E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0020.1S 68.4E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0021.2S 68.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 12:0022.6S 67.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 18:0023.9S 67.5E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 00:0025.4S 67.8E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0027.1S 68.6E35 kt992 mbExtratropical
Feb 3, 12:0028.9S 69.6E35 kt990 mbExtratropical
Feb 3, 18:0030.4S 70.1E40 kt987 mbExtratropical
Feb 4, 00:0030.6S 69.8E45 kt985 mbExtratropical
Feb 4, 06:0030.8S 69.4E45 kt985 mbExtratropical
Feb 4, 12:0031.2S 69.1E40 kt987 mbExtratropical
Feb 4, 18:0031.7S 69.0E40 kt988 mbExtratropical
Feb 5, 00:0032.2S 68.9E35 kt990 mbExtratropical
Feb 5, 06:0033.1S 68.9E35 kt992 mbExtratropical
Feb 5, 12:0034.0S 69.8E30 kt995 mbExtratropical
Feb 5, 18:0035.0S 70.8E30 kt996 mbExtratropical
Feb 6, 00:0035.9S 71.7E30 kt998 mbExtratropical
Feb 6, 06:0036.6S 72.3E30 kt998 mbExtratropical
Feb 6, 12:0037.3S 73.1E30 kt998 mbExtratropical

Other South Indian storms of 2001

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.