The 2015 season

Tropical Storm Komen (2015)

Tropical Storm Komen peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between July 26, 2015 and August 2, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Komen, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2015 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
July 26, 2015 to August 2, 2015
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
105 nmi (194 km, 121 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
IO022015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 26, 00:0022.0N 90.8E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0022.0N 90.5E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0022.0N 90.5E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 18:0022.0N 90.5E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0022.0N 90.5E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0022.0N 90.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0022.0N 90.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0022.0N 90.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0022.0N 90.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0020.7N 90.8E25 kt996 mbMD
Jul 28, 12:0021.0N 90.8E30 kt1000 mbMD
Jul 28, 18:0021.0N 91.1E30 kt995 mbMD
Jul 29, 00:0020.9N 91.2E35 kt996 mbMD
Jul 29, 06:0021.0N 91.2E35 kt996 mbMD
Jul 29, 12:0021.2N 91.2E40 kt993 mbMD
Jul 29, 18:0021.4N 91.3E40 kt993 mbMD
Jul 30, 00:0021.6N 91.5E45 kt989 mbMD
Jul 30, 06:0021.9N 91.6E45 kt989 mbMD
Jul 30, 12:0022.1N 91.5E40 kt993 mbMD
Jul 30, 18:0022.6N 91.4E35 kt996 mbMD
Jul 31, 00:0023.0N 90.9E30 kt1000 mbMD
Jul 31, 06:0023.1N 89.8E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 12:0023.1N 89.5E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 31, 18:0023.1N 89.4E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0023.2N 89.2E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0023.5N 88.8E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0023.8N 88.4E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0023.8N 87.5E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0023.8N 86.7E20 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0023.3N 85.7E20 kt996 mbTropical storm

Other North Indian storms of 2015

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.