The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Clare (2006)

Tropical Storm Clare peaked at 60 kt in the South Indian between January 6, 2006 and January 10, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Clare, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2006 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, 2006 to January 10, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
SH052006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 6, 06:0011.3S 129.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 12:0011.4S 127.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0012.0S 124.4E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 00:0012.5S 123.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 06:0013.2S 123.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 12:0014.4S 123.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 18:0015.3S 121.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0015.5S 120.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0016.3S 119.7E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0017.2S 118.9E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0018.1S 118.1E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0018.8S 117.5E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0019.4S 117.0E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0020.1S 116.4E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0020.9S 116.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0021.8S 116.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0022.5S 116.2E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0023.1S 116.2E45 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0023.5S 116.4E35 kt997 mbExtratropical

Other South Indian storms of 2006

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.