The 2005 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2005)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the North Indian between September 17, 2005 and September 21, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
September 17, 2005 to September 21, 2005
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Identifier
2005260N20091

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 17, 06:0020.2N 90.4ETropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0020.5N 90.0E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0020.8N 88.9ETropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0020.8N 87.8ETropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0020.0N 87.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0019.5N 86.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0019.0N 85.5E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0018.5N 84.5E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0018.5N 83.5E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0018.5N 83.5E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0018.5N 83.0E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0019.0N 82.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0019.0N 82.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0019.0N 80.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0019.0N 79.9ETropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0019.2N 79.9ETropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0019.9N 78.7ETropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0021.0N 76.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm

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. 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.