The 2005 season

Tropical Storm Sally (2005)

Tropical Storm Sally peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between January 6, 2005 and January 10, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sally, 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 6, 2005 to January 10, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 663 km (412 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
SH092005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 6, 06:009.0S 99.0E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 12:009.8S 98.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0010.3S 98.7E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 00:0011.2S 99.6E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 06:0011.8S 100.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 12:0012.4S 101.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 18:0013.1S 101.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 00:0013.5S 100.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 06:0013.8S 100.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0014.1S 99.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0014.3S 99.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0014.6S 99.3E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0014.9S 98.9E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0015.2S 98.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0015.6S 98.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0016.0S 98.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 10, 06:0016.7S 97.6E30 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.