The 2018 season

Cyclone Titli (2018)

Cyclone Titli reached Category 3 in the North Indian between October 8, 2018 and October 12, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 944 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Titli, 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
North Indian
Dates
October 8, 2018 to October 12, 2018
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
944 mb (27.88 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
155 nmi (287 km, 178 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
420 nmi (778 km, 483 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
IO062018

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 8, 00:0014.2N 88.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Oct 8, 06:0014.2N 88.0E25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 12:0014.3N 87.6E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 8, 18:0014.4N 87.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 9, 00:0014.6N 87.1E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:0014.8N 86.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:0015.1N 86.8E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0015.6N 86.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0016.1N 86.2E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 06:0016.9N 85.7E75 kt976 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 12:0017.6N 85.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Oct 10, 18:0018.3N 84.8E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 00:0018.7N 84.3E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 06:0019.0N 83.9E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 12:0019.5N 83.8E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Oct 11, 18:0019.9N 84.1E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0020.6N 84.7E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0021.3N 85.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 12, 12:0021.2N 86.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0021.9N 87.2E25 kt1003 mbTropical storm

Other North 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.