The 2001 season

Unnamed cyclone (2001)

Unnamed cyclone reached Category 3 in the North Indian between May 21, 2001 and May 29, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 927 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed cyclone, 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
North Indian
Dates
May 21, 2001 to May 29, 2001
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
927 mb (27.37 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
IO012001

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
May 21, 06:0013.7N 68.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 21, 12:0013.7N 69.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 21, 18:0013.7N 69.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
May 22, 00:0013.9N 70.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
May 22, 06:0014.1N 71.2E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
May 22, 12:0014.5N 71.6E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
May 22, 18:0014.9N 71.7E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
May 23, 00:0015.4N 71.4E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
May 23, 06:0015.7N 70.9E80 kt967 mbTyphoon
May 23, 12:0015.9N 70.4E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
May 23, 18:0016.4N 70.2E95 kt954 mbTyphoon
May 24, 00:0016.7N 69.8E100 kt949 mbTyphoon
May 24, 06:0016.8N 69.0E110 kt927 mbTyphoon
May 24, 12:0016.8N 68.2E110 kt927 mbTyphoon
May 24, 18:0016.9N 68.1E100 kt927 mbTyphoon
May 25, 00:0017.0N 68.0E90 kt944 mbTyphoon
May 25, 06:0017.2N 67.8E90 kt944 mbTyphoon
May 25, 12:0017.2N 67.6E80 kt958 mbTyphoon
May 25, 18:0017.1N 67.7E75 kt958 mbTyphoon
May 26, 00:0017.0N 67.9E65 kt972 mbTyphoon
May 26, 06:0017.2N 67.8E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
May 26, 12:0017.6N 67.8E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
May 26, 18:0018.0N 67.7E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
May 27, 00:0018.3N 67.6E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
May 27, 06:0018.6N 67.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
May 27, 12:0019.0N 67.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
May 27, 18:0019.5N 67.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 28, 00:0019.9N 67.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
May 28, 06:0020.2N 68.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
May 28, 12:0021.0N 68.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
May 28, 18:0021.8N 67.9E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
May 29, 00:0022.3N 67.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 29, 06:0022.8N 68.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
May 29, 12:0023.4N 68.8E55 kt997 mbTropical storm

Other North 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.

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.