The 2019 season

Tropical Storm Lili (2019)

Tropical Storm Lili peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between May 5, 2019 and May 11, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lili, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2019 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
May 5, 2019 to May 11, 2019
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 11 km (7 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Identifier
SH262019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
May 5, 12:005.0S 128.8E15 kt1008 mbTropical storm
May 5, 18:005.2S 129.1E15 kt1007 mbTropical storm
May 6, 00:005.4S 129.4E15 kt1008 mbTropical storm
May 6, 06:005.5S 129.4E15 kt1006 mbTropical storm
May 6, 12:005.6S 129.9E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
May 6, 18:005.8S 129.8E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
May 7, 00:006.0S 129.7E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
May 7, 06:006.2S 129.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
May 7, 12:006.3S 129.3E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 7, 18:006.4S 129.1E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 8, 00:006.7S 129.1E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
May 8, 06:007.1S 128.9E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
May 8, 12:007.5S 128.6E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
May 8, 18:007.8S 128.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
May 9, 00:008.1S 129.1E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
May 9, 06:008.7S 129.1E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 9, 12:009.2S 128.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
May 9, 18:009.4S 129.1E45 kt999 mbTropical storm
May 10, 00:009.5S 128.9E45 kt999 mbTropical storm
May 10, 06:009.4S 128.7E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 10, 12:009.3S 128.5E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
May 10, 18:009.2S 128.0E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
May 11, 00:008.9S 127.6E25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
May 11, 06:008.7S 127.1E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 2019

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.