Cyclone Riley (2019)

Basin

South Indian

Dates

January 21, 2019 to February 5, 2019

Peak strength

Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)

Lowest pressure

970 mb (28.64 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 77 km (48 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

8.3

Identifier

SH112019

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

• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Cyclone AlcideSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4115 kt · 952 mb
• Tropical Storm BouchraSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm60 kt · 977 mb
• Cyclone KenangaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4115 kt · 944 mb
• Cyclone CilidaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4135 kt · 925 mb
• Tropical Storm DesmondSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm45 kt · 989 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm40 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm EketsangSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm40 kt · 992 mb
• Cyclone FunaniSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4120 kt · 940 mb
• Cyclone GelenaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4120 kt · 946 mb
• Cyclone HalehSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4115 kt · 941 mb
• Cyclone IdaiSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4115 kt · 947 mb
• Cyclone SavannahSouth Indian · 2019Cat 3105 kt · 957 mb
• Cyclone VeronicaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4130 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone JoaninhaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4120 kt · 938 mb
• Tropical Storm WallaceSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm60 kt · 992 mb
• Cyclone LornaSouth Indian · 2019Cat 290 kt · 965 mb
• Cyclone KennethSouth Indian · 2019Cat 4125 kt · 934 mb
• Tropical Storm LiliSouth Indian · 2019Tropical Storm55 kt · 993 mb

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.

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.