The 2011 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2011)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the South Atlantic between March 9, 2011 and March 16, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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 Atlantic
Dates
March 9, 2011 to March 16, 2011
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
SL502011

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 9, 18:0019.7S 39.0W20 kt1007 mbLow
Mar 10, 00:0020.0S 39.1W20 kt1009 mbLow
Mar 10, 06:0019.8S 39.1W25 kt1008 mbLow
Mar 10, 12:0019.4S 39.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Mar 10, 18:0019.0S 39.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Mar 11, 00:0019.2S 39.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Mar 11, 06:0019.3S 39.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Mar 11, 12:0019.4S 39.9W30 kt1009 mbLow
Mar 11, 18:0019.5S 39.9W30 kt1006 mbLow
Mar 12, 00:0019.1S 40.2W30 kt1008 mbLow
Mar 12, 06:0019.3S 40.2W30 kt1007 mbLow
Mar 12, 12:0019.6S 40.2W30 kt1008 mbLow
Mar 12, 18:0019.9S 40.1W30 kt1005 mbLow
Mar 13, 00:0020.0S 40.2W30 kt1006 mbLow
Mar 13, 06:0020.0S 40.6W30 kt1005 mbLow
Mar 13, 12:0020.0S 41.0W30 kt1004 mbLow
Mar 13, 18:0020.0S 40.8W30 kt1001 mbLow
Mar 14, 00:0020.4S 40.8W30 kt1001 mbLow
Mar 14, 06:0021.6S 40.8W30 kt1002 mbLow
Mar 14, 12:0022.4S 40.7W30 kt1003 mbLow
Mar 14, 18:0022.7S 40.2W30 kt1000 mbLow
Mar 15, 00:0023.6S 38.8W30 kt1000 mbLow
Mar 15, 06:0024.3S 37.7W30 kt1002 mbLow
Mar 15, 12:0024.8S 37.2W30 kt1002 mbLow
Mar 15, 18:0025.0S 36.5W30 kt1000 mbLow
Mar 16, 00:0025.2S 34.7W35 kt998 mbLow
Mar 16, 06:0025.6S 33.5W40 kt993 mbLow
Mar 16, 12:0025.8S 32.0W45 kt989 mbLow
Mar 16, 18:0025.4S 30.5W45 kt989 mbLow

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.