The 2005 season

Cyclone Ernest (2005)

Cyclone Ernest reached Category 3 in the South Indian between January 16, 2005 and January 25, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 944 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Ernest, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2005 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 16, 2005 to January 25, 2005
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
944 mb (27.88 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Overall size
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
125 kt (144 mph)
Fastest the center moved
40 kt (46 mph)
Identifier
SH122005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 16, 12:008.8S 60.8E15 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 18:009.0S 59.8E20 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 00:009.3S 58.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 06:009.5S 57.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 12:009.7S 57.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 17, 18:009.9S 56.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 00:0010.1S 55.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 06:0010.2S 54.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 12:0010.2S 53.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 18, 18:0010.2S 52.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 00:0010.2S 51.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 19, 06:0010.4S 50.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0011.1S 49.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0011.9S 47.5E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0012.3S 46.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0012.9S 45.3E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0013.5S 44.2E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0014.2S 43.3E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Jan 21, 00:0015.0S 42.6E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Jan 21, 06:0016.0S 42.1E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Jan 21, 12:0017.1S 41.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jan 21, 18:0018.2S 41.9E85 kt958 mbTyphoon
Jan 22, 00:0019.5S 41.9E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Jan 22, 06:0020.6S 42.0E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jan 22, 12:0021.8S 42.2E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jan 22, 18:0022.9S 42.6E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jan 23, 00:0023.7S 43.0E100 kt944 mbTyphoon
Jan 23, 06:0024.7S 43.9E90 kt954 mbTyphoon
Jan 23, 12:0025.5S 44.9E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Jan 23, 18:0026.7S 46.3E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0028.1S 48.0E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0029.7S 50.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 24, 12:0031.3S 53.0E70 kt990 mbExtratropical
Jan 24, 18:0032.7S 56.3E65 kt992 mbExtratropical
Jan 25, 00:0035.1S 60.1E55 kt995 mbExtratropical
Jan 25, 06:0036.8S 63.3E50 kt998 mbExtratropical

Other South Indian storms of 2005

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.