The 2017 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2017)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between March 19, 2017 and March 23, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.3
Identifier
2017079S13122

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 19, 12:0013.2S 122.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Mar 19, 18:0013.2S 120.8E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Mar 20, 00:0013.5S 119.0E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Mar 20, 06:0013.6S 118.6E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 12:0014.1S 118.2E30 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 18:0014.7S 117.8E30 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Mar 21, 00:0015.4S 117.7E30 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Mar 21, 06:0016.2S 117.7E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Mar 21, 12:0017.1S 117.4E30 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 21, 18:0017.4S 117.1E30 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 22, 00:0017.4S 117.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 22, 06:0017.6S 116.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 22, 12:0018.1S 117.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 22, 18:0018.7S 118.0E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 23, 00:0019.5S 118.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 23, 06:0020.5S 118.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Mar 23, 12:0021.4S 119.2E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 23, 18:0022.5S 119.2E20 kt1000 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.