Tropical Storm Urmil (2006)
Tropical Storm Urmil peaked at 60 kt in the South Pacific between January 13, 2006 and January 16, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Tropical Storm Urmil, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- South Pacific
- Dates
- January 13, 2006 to January 16, 2006
- Peak strength
- Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 185 km (115 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 1.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
- Overall size
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 24 kt (28 mph)
- Identifier
- SH072006
Deaths and damage
No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 06:00 | 12.8S 175.8W | 25 kt | 999 mb | Not reported |
| Jan 13, 12:00 | 13.5S 174.5W | 25 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical depression |
| Jan 13, 18:00 | 14.9S 173.9W | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 14, 00:00 | 16.4S 173.4W | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 14, 06:00 | 18.0S 173.0W | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 14, 12:00 | 20.2S 172.7W | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 14, 18:00 | 22.4S 171.8W | 60 kt | 980 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 15, 00:00 | 24.2S 171.2W | 55 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Jan 15, 06:00 | 26.2S 169.9W | 35 kt | 996 mb | Extratropical |
| Jan 15, 12:00 | 27.0S 168.5W | Not reported | ||
| Jan 15, 18:00 | 27.7S 167.0W | Not reported | ||
| Jan 16, 00:00 | 28.4S 165.7W | Not reported | ||
| Jan 16, 06:00 | 28.7S 164.8W | Not reported | ||
| Jan 16, 12:00 | 29.3S 164.0W | Not reported |
Other South Pacific 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.