The 2019 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2019)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 45 kt in the South Indian between September 13, 2018 and September 19, 2018, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
September 13, 2018 to September 19, 2018
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 563 km (350 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH012019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 13, 06:007.2S 75.6E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Sep 13, 12:007.6S 75.4E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Sep 13, 18:008.2S 75.0E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:008.8S 74.5E25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:009.2S 74.1E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 12:009.6S 73.5E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 18:009.9S 72.7E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 15, 00:0010.2S 71.8E40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0010.5S 71.0E40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0010.6S 70.1E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0010.6S 68.9E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0010.9S 68.1E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0011.3S 66.9E35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0011.8S 65.8E35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0012.3S 64.7E35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0012.4S 63.7E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0012.4S 62.6E30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 12:0012.3S 61.3E30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0012.0S 59.9E25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0011.4S 58.6E25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0010.6S 57.1E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Sep 18, 12:009.7S 55.5E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Sep 18, 18:009.3S 54.0E20 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Sep 19, 00:008.1S 52.5E25 kt1013 mbDisturbance
Sep 19, 06:007.3S 51.2E20 kt1014 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.