The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Phoebe (2005)

Tropical Storm Phoebe peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between August 30, 2004 and September 5, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Phoebe, 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
August 30, 2004 to September 5, 2004
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1036 km (644 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Identifier
SH012005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 30, 06:002.8S 87.7ETropical storm
Aug 30, 12:003.1S 87.8ETropical storm
Aug 30, 18:003.4S 87.8ETropical storm
Aug 31, 00:003.7S 87.9ETropical storm
Aug 31, 06:003.8S 88.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:004.3S 88.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:005.1S 89.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:005.5S 89.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:005.9S 90.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:006.7S 90.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:007.4S 90.6E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:008.0S 90.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:008.6S 91.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:009.2S 91.6E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:009.2S 92.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 00:009.2S 92.8E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:009.6S 93.0E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:009.8S 92.8E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:009.6S 92.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:009.6S 92.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:009.8S 93.1E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0010.0S 92.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 18:009.6S 92.6E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:009.5S 92.5E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:009.7S 92.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:009.9S 91.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm

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.