The 2014 season

Tropical Storm Edilson (2014)

Tropical Storm Edilson peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between February 3, 2014 and February 9, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 982 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Edilson, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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 3, 2014 to February 9, 2014
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
982 mb (29.00 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 119 km (74 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Identifier
SH132014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 3, 06:0013.6S 57.9E15 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Feb 3, 12:0014.0S 58.2E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Feb 3, 18:0014.4S 58.7E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Feb 4, 00:0015.0S 59.4E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Feb 4, 06:0015.9S 60.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 4, 12:0016.0S 59.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Feb 4, 18:0016.3S 59.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Feb 5, 00:0016.7S 59.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 5, 06:0017.2S 59.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0018.1S 60.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0019.2S 60.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0020.2S 59.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0021.2S 58.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0022.4S 57.8E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0024.1S 56.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0026.0S 55.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0027.5S 55.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0029.0S 54.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0030.5S 53.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0032.0S 52.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 8, 06:0033.6S 52.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 8, 12:0035.1S 52.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Feb 8, 18:0036.6S 52.1E25 kt1004 mbSubtropical depression
Feb 9, 00:0037.3S 52.2E35 kt991 mbExtratropical
Feb 9, 06:0038.4S 52.7E37 kt993 mbExtratropical
Feb 9, 12:0039.9S 53.5E35 kt995 mbExtratropical
Feb 9, 18:0041.7S 54.5E33 kt997 mbExtratropical

Other South Indian storms of 2014

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.