The 2009 season

Cyclone Jade (2009)

Cyclone Jade reached Category 1 in the South Indian between April 2, 2009 and April 12, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb, and made landfall. It killed 9 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Jade, 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
April 2, 2009 to April 12, 2009
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
95 nmi (176 km, 109 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
37 kt (43 mph)
Identifier
SH262009

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

9 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Apr 2, 18:0011.8S 62.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Apr 3, 00:0012.2S 60.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Apr 3, 06:0011.6S 58.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Apr 3, 12:0011.3S 58.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Apr 3, 18:0011.1S 57.6E25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Apr 4, 00:0011.2S 57.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 4, 06:0011.7S 56.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 4, 12:0012.4S 56.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 4, 18:0013.0S 55.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 00:0013.3S 53.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 06:0013.5S 52.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 12:0013.9S 52.0E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Apr 5, 18:0014.6S 51.3E65 kt1000 mbTyphoon
Apr 6, 00:0015.4S 50.7E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Apr 6, 06:0015.7S 49.8E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Apr 6, 12:0016.5S 49.3E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Apr 6, 18:0017.4S 48.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 00:0018.4S 48.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 06:0019.2S 49.1E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 12:0020.2S 49.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 7, 18:0020.9S 49.2E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 00:0021.4S 49.2E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 06:0021.8S 49.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 12:0022.0S 49.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 8, 18:0022.2S 49.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 00:0022.4S 50.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 06:0022.5S 50.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 12:0022.7S 50.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 9, 18:0023.1S 50.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 00:0023.6S 51.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 06:0024.3S 51.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 12:0025.0S 52.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 10, 18:0026.0S 53.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 00:0027.3S 55.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 06:0029.4S 57.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Apr 11, 12:0033.0S 58.3E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Apr 11, 18:0035.7S 58.0E35 kt996 mbExtratropical
Apr 12, 00:0037.5S 57.5E65 kt954 mbExtratropical
Apr 12, 06:0038.8S 58.9E65 kt948 mbExtratropical
Apr 12, 12:0040.8S 61.5E65 kt952 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.