The 2011 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2011)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between December 29, 2010 and January 5, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2011 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 29, 2010 to January 5, 2011
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2010363S15133

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 29, 00:0014.5S 132.8E10 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 06:0014.5S 132.8E10 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 12:0014.7S 132.3E10 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 29, 18:0014.9S 131.8ETropical storm
Dec 30, 00:0015.0S 131.2E10 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 06:0015.1S 130.2E10 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 12:0015.5S 128.4E10 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 30, 18:0015.6S 126.8E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 00:0016.0S 125.3E15 kt999 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 06:0016.3S 123.8E15 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 12:0017.3S 121.7E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 31, 18:0018.0S 120.1E25 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 00:0018.8S 118.1E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 06:0019.2S 115.8E30 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 12:0019.3S 114.4E30 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 18:0019.3S 113.1E30 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 00:0019.6S 112.1E30 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 06:0020.3S 110.1E30 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 12:0020.6S 108.9E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 18:0020.3S 107.8E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 00:0019.9S 107.3E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 06:0019.4S 106.9E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 12:0019.2S 107.0E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 18:0019.8S 106.9E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 00:0020.7S 106.3E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 06:0021.1S 105.0E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 12:0021.0S 104.3E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 18:0020.9S 103.5E20 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 00:0020.8S 102.8E20 kt998 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 2011

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.