The 2011 season

Tropical Storm Vince (2011)

Tropical Storm Vince peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between January 9, 2011 and January 16, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Vince, 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
January 9, 2011 to January 16, 2011
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 558 km (347 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
SH062011

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 9, 06:0015.1S 112.8E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 12:0015.1S 112.9E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0015.2S 113.0E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0015.2S 112.3E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0015.1S 111.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 12:0015.3S 110.3E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 18:0015.3S 109.4E25 kt999 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 00:0015.1S 108.5E25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 06:0014.9S 107.9E30 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 12:0014.9S 107.7E30 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 18:0014.9S 107.5E30 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 00:0015.0S 107.5E30 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 06:0015.0S 107.6E35 kt996 mbTropical cyclone
Jan 12, 12:0015.3S 107.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0015.7S 107.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0015.9S 108.2E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0016.1S 109.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0015.9S 110.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0016.1S 111.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0016.2S 112.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0016.2S 113.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0016.2S 114.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0016.0S 114.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0015.8S 114.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0015.7S 114.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0015.7S 114.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0015.9S 113.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 00:0016.1S 113.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 06:0016.3S 112.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 16, 12:0016.5S 112.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression

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.

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.