The 2017 season

Unnamed tropical depression (2017)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the South Indian between December 18, 2016 and December 23, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2017 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
December 18, 2016 to December 23, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
2016353S11130

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 18, 06:0010.5S 129.5E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Dec 18, 12:0011.0S 129.2E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Dec 18, 18:0011.4S 129.3E15 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 00:0011.6S 129.4E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 06:0011.7S 129.6E15 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 12:0011.8S 129.7E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Dec 19, 18:0012.1S 129.7E15 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 20, 00:0012.5S 129.4E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 20, 06:0013.0S 129.0E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 20, 12:0013.8S 128.7E20 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 20, 18:0014.7S 128.5E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Dec 21, 00:0015.5S 128.3E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 21, 06:0015.9S 128.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 21, 12:0016.6S 127.6E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 21, 18:0017.7S 126.7E30 kt997 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 00:0018.2S 126.0E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 06:0018.5S 125.0E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 12:0019.5S 124.0E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 22, 18:0019.8S 123.7E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Dec 23, 00:0020.5S 124.0E30 kt994 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian storms of 2017

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.