Cyclone Gati (2020)
Cyclone Gati reached Category 3 in the North Indian between November 20, 2020 and November 24, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 967 mb, and made landfall. It killed 9 people, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Cyclone Gati, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- North Indian
- Dates
- November 20, 2020 to November 24, 2020
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 967 mb (28.56 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 3.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
- Overall size
- 170 nmi (315 km, 196 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 19 kt (22 mph)
- Identifier
- IO032020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
9 deathsno damage figure
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 12:00 | 11.2N 62.6E | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Disturbance |
| Nov 20, 18:00 | 10.9N 61.7E | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 21, 00:00 | 11.3N 60.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 21, 06:00 | 11.3N 58.8E | 35 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 21, 12:00 | 11.3N 57.1E | 30 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 21, 18:00 | 10.8N 55.4E | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 22, 00:00 | 10.6N 53.8E | 60 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 22, 06:00 | 10.4N 52.5E | 100 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 22, 12:00 | 10.4N 51.5E | 90 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 22, 18:00 | 10.4N 50.6E | 65 kt | 992 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 23, 00:00 | 10.8N 49.9E | 50 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 23, 06:00 | 11.3N 49.3E | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 23, 12:00 | 11.6N 48.6E | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 23, 18:00 | 11.9N 47.5E | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 24, 00:00 | 11.4N 46.7E | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 24, 06:00 | 10.9N 46.5E | 25 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical depression |
| Nov 24, 12:00 | 10.4N 46.3E | 15 kt | 1013 mb | Disturbance |
Other North Indian storms of 2020
- Cyclone AmphanNorth Indian · 2020 · 106 deaths
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2020
- Cyclone NisargaNorth Indian · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2020
- Cyclone NivarNorth Indian · 2020
- Tropical Storm BureviNorth Indian · 2020
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.