The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Felapi (2005)

Tropical Storm Felapi peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between January 26, 2005 and February 3, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Felapi, 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 26, 2005 to February 3, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Identifier
2005026S20040

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 26, 06:0020.2S 39.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0021.1S 40.9E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0021.5S 41.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0021.8S 41.0E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0022.1S 41.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0022.1S 41.7E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0022.3S 42.4E33 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0022.7S 42.9E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0023.4S 43.4E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0024.1S 43.9E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Jan 28, 18:0024.7S 44.6E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Jan 29, 00:0025.5S 45.4E25 kt999 mbNot reported
Jan 29, 06:0026.1S 45.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0026.0S 46.5E27 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0025.7S 47.2E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0025.1S 47.7E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 06:0024.4S 48.2E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 12:0023.3S 49.1E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0022.8S 49.6E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0022.4S 50.2E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0022.4S 50.6E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0023.0S 50.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0023.4S 50.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0024.6S 50.8E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0026.2S 50.3E30 kt998 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0027.1S 50.0E35 kt997 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0028.1S 49.8E30 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0028.8S 49.9E30 kt999 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0029.2S 50.0E27 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 2, 12:0029.9S 50.5E27 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 2, 18:0030.8S 51.5E27 kt1000 mbSubtropical storm
Feb 3, 00:0031.7S 53.0E25 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Feb 3, 06:0032.3S 55.3E25 kt1002 mbExtratropical
Feb 3, 12:0034.6S 55.0E25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Feb 3, 18:0037.5S 54.2E1005 mbDisturbance

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. 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.