The 2006 season

Tropical Storm Emma (2006)

Tropical Storm Emma peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 25, 2006 and March 1, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 988 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Emma, 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
February 25, 2006 to March 1, 2006
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
988 mb (29.18 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.2
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
26 kt (30 mph)
Identifier
SH152006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 25, 18:0012.0S 114.4E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0012.2S 114.4E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0012.4S 114.2E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0013.3S 113.9E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0016.7S 114.8E20 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Feb 27, 00:0017.2S 114.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 06:0018.0S 114.3E25 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 12:0018.8S 114.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 18:0019.5S 115.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0020.4S 115.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0021.5S 116.1E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Feb 28, 12:0024.3S 117.0E25 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Feb 28, 18:0026.5S 118.2E30 kt988 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 00:0028.9S 119.0E30 kt990 mbSubtropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0031.2S 120.2E30 kt990 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 12:0033.4S 121.4E30 kt992 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 18:0035.6S 122.1E30 kt992 mbDisturbance

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.