The 2018 season

Tropical Storm Joyce (2018)

Tropical Storm Joyce peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between January 7, 2018 and January 15, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Joyce, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2018 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
January 7, 2018 to January 15, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Identifier
SH052018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jan 7, 00:0013.0S 129.5E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 06:0013.3S 129.1E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 12:0013.5S 128.7E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 7, 18:0013.8S 128.3E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 8, 00:0014.0S 127.9E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0015.4S 127.3E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0015.8S 126.8E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 18:0015.8S 126.3E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 00:0016.2S 125.1E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 9, 06:0016.7S 125.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 12:0017.3S 124.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 18:0017.9S 123.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 10, 00:0016.7S 122.7E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 10, 06:0016.2S 122.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 10, 12:0016.2S 122.4E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Jan 10, 18:0016.6S 122.0E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0016.8S 121.8E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0017.3S 121.6E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0018.0S 121.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0018.6S 121.5E50 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0019.3S 121.0E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0019.7S 120.5E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0020.2S 119.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0020.6S 119.4E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0021.6S 118.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0022.5S 118.0E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0023.7S 117.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0024.6S 116.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 00:0025.6S 115.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 06:0026.3S 114.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 12:0027.0S 113.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jan 14, 18:0027.4S 113.2E25 kt1004 mbSubtropical depression
Jan 15, 00:0028.4S 113.4E25 kt1004 mbSubtropical depression
Jan 15, 06:0029.2S 113.2E20 kt1007 mbSubtropical depression

Other South Indian storms of 2018

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.