The 2009 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2009)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between September 3, 2009 and September 7, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
North Indian
Dates
September 3, 2009 to September 7, 2009
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
IO032009

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 3, 18:0019.4N 88.8E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 4, 00:0019.5N 88.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 4, 06:0019.6N 88.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 4, 12:0019.9N 87.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 4, 18:0020.4N 87.9E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 00:0020.9N 88.2E30 kt996 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0021.6N 88.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0022.2N 87.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0022.6N 87.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0023.1N 86.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 06:0023.4N 86.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 12:0023.7N 85.5E25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Sep 6, 18:0023.9N 84.9E25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Sep 7, 00:0024.0N 84.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 7, 06:0024.5N 84.0ETropical storm

Other North 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.