Tropical Storm Melanie (2008)

Tropical Storm Melanie peaked at 60 kt in the South Indian between December 26, 2007 and January 2, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Melanie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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: December 26, 2007 to January 2, 2008
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure: 978 mb (28.88 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 74 km (46 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 4.2
Identifier: SH082008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 26, 00:00	9.5S 115.7E	15 kt	1010 mb	Disturbance
Dec 26, 06:00	9.7S 115.8E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 26, 12:00	10.1S 116.1E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 26, 18:00	10.5S 116.5E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 27, 00:00	11.1S 117.1E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 27, 06:00	12.0S 117.7E	25 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 27, 12:00	13.2S 118.0E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 27, 18:00	13.8S 117.8E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 28, 00:00	14.4S 117.6E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 28, 06:00	15.0S 118.0E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 28, 12:00	15.5S 118.3E	40 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 28, 18:00	16.2S 117.9E	45 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 29, 00:00	16.8S 117.4E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 29, 06:00	17.3S 116.8E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 29, 12:00	17.9S 116.1E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 29, 18:00	18.2S 115.1E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 30, 00:00	18.5S 114.1E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 30, 06:00	18.7S 113.4E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 30, 12:00	18.8S 112.8E	60 kt	978 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 30, 18:00	18.8S 112.4E	55 kt	982 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 31, 00:00	18.8S 112.0E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 31, 06:00	18.9S 111.6E	45 kt	989 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 31, 12:00	19.0S 111.2E	40 kt	993 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 31, 18:00	19.4S 111.0E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 1, 00:00	19.9S 110.9E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 1, 06:00	20.8S 110.6E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Jan 1, 12:00	21.3S 110.0E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Jan 1, 18:00	21.9S 109.3E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Jan 2, 00:00	22.5S 108.4E	25 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Jan 2, 06:00	22.9S 107.8E	25 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 2008

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.