The 2012 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2012)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between February 28, 2012 and March 2, 2012, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2012 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
February 28, 2012 to March 2, 2012
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 747 km (464 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
SH152012

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 28, 12:0011.7S 69.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 18:0012.2S 69.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 29, 00:0012.5S 69.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 29, 06:0012.9S 68.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 29, 12:0013.5S 67.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 29, 18:0013.9S 66.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0014.4S 65.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0014.5S 64.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0014.8S 64.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0015.2S 63.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 00:0015.7S 63.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Mar 2, 06:0016.4S 63.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Mar 2, 12:0016.5S 64.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 2012

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.