Tropical Storm Fanoos (2005)

Tropical Storm Fanoos peaked at 60 kt in the North Indian between December 4, 2005 and December 12, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fanoos, 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: North Indian
Dates: December 4, 2005 to December 12, 2005
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure: 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 5.1
Identifier: IO062005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 4, 06:00	8.7N 93.0E	20 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Dec 4, 12:00	9.1N 92.4E	20 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Dec 4, 18:00	9.6N 92.0E	20 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Dec 5, 00:00	9.9N 91.5E	20 kt	1004 mb	Disturbance
Dec 5, 06:00	10.2N 91.0E	25 kt	1002 mb	Disturbance
Dec 5, 12:00	10.4N 90.4E	30 kt	1000 mb	Disturbance
Dec 5, 18:00	10.9N 90.0E	30 kt	1000 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 00:00	11.4N 89.5E	35 kt	997 mb	Disturbance
Dec 6, 06:00	11.7N 88.9E	35 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 12:00	11.6N 88.3E	45 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 18:00	11.4N 87.7E	50 kt	987 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 00:00	11.2N 87.1E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 06:00	10.8N 86.8E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 12:00	10.5N 86.6E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 18:00	10.3N 86.3E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 00:00	10.4N 85.9E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 06:00	10.6N 85.4E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 12:00	10.6N 84.7E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 18:00	10.3N 84.1E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 00:00	10.3N 83.3E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 06:00	10.3N 82.5E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 12:00	10.3N 81.7E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 18:00	10.3N 80.9E	60 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 00:00	10.6N 80.4E	55 kt	984 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 06:00	10.3N 80.0E	45 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	10.1N 79.5E	45 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	10.2N 78.7E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 00:00	10.0N 77.8E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 06:00	9.4N 77.2E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 12:00	8.7N 76.6E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 11, 18:00	8.0N 76.2E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 12, 00:00	7.8N 75.7E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 12, 06:00	7.4N 75.1E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 12, 12:00	7.1N 74.5E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 12, 18:00	6.8N 74.2E	15 kt	1006 mb	Disturbance

Other North 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.