The 2013 season

Cyclone Phailin (2013)

Cyclone Phailin reached Category 5 in the North Indian between October 7, 2013 and October 14, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 918 mb, and made landfall. It killed 45 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Phailin, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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
October 7, 2013 to October 14, 2013
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
918 mb (27.11 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
IO022013

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

45 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 7, 12:0011.8N 97.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 7, 18:0012.1N 96.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 00:0012.3N 95.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 06:0012.6N 95.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 12:0012.7N 94.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 18:0012.9N 93.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 00:0013.2N 93.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0013.4N 92.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0013.7N 92.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0014.0N 91.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0014.5N 91.3E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 06:0015.0N 90.8E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 12:0015.4N 90.2E110 kt941 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 18:0015.6N 89.4E130 kt926 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 11, 00:0015.7N 88.7E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 11, 06:0016.1N 88.3E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 11, 12:0016.7N 87.7E140 kt918 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 11, 18:0016.8N 87.0E140 kt918 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 12, 00:0017.4N 86.4E140 kt918 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 12, 06:0018.0N 85.8E135 kt922 mbSuper typhoon
Oct 12, 12:0018.7N 85.2E125 kt929 mbTyphoon
Oct 12, 18:0019.5N 84.9E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Oct 13, 00:0020.3N 84.5E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Oct 13, 06:0021.5N 84.1E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0023.1N 84.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0023.0N 83.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0023.5N 84.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0024.5N 84.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2013

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.