The 2009 season

Tropical Storm Dongo (2009)

Tropical Storm Dongo peaked at 60 kt in the South Indian between January 7, 2009 and January 14, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dongo, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2009 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 7, 2009 to January 14, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
978 mb (28.88 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1021 km (634 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
SH062009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 7, 12:0012.6S 68.9E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0012.7S 69.3E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0012.8S 69.9E27 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0014.1S 70.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 12:0015.0S 70.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 18:0015.7S 70.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 00:0016.2S 69.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 06:0016.7S 68.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 12:0017.1S 68.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 18:0017.4S 67.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0017.8S 67.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0018.2S 67.3E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0018.7S 67.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0019.5S 67.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0020.6S 68.3E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0021.8S 68.9E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0023.0S 69.6E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0024.4S 70.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0026.8S 70.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0028.2S 69.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0029.1S 70.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 12, 18:0030.1S 71.4E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Jan 13, 00:0031.1S 72.5E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Jan 13, 06:0031.9S 73.3E25 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Jan 13, 12:0033.0S 74.7E25 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Jan 13, 18:0034.6S 76.5E40 kt991 mbExtratropical
Jan 14, 00:0036.6S 79.1E40 kt990 mbExtratropical
Jan 14, 06:0039.0S 82.5E45 kt986 mbExtratropical
Jan 14, 12:0040.7S 85.5E60 kt978 mbExtratropical

Other South Indian storms of 2009

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.