The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Jeruto (2020)

Tropical Storm Jeruto peaked at 40 kt in the South Indian between April 13, 2020 and April 18, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Jeruto, 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.

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The storm

Basin
South Indian
Dates
April 13, 2020 to April 18, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1408 km (875 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.8
Identifier
SH262020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Apr 13, 06:0011.8S 91.3EDisturbance
Apr 13, 12:0012.4S 90.8ETropical storm
Apr 13, 18:0012.8S 89.4E25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Apr 14, 00:0013.2S 88.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Apr 14, 06:0013.7S 87.8E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Apr 14, 12:0014.2S 86.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 14, 18:0014.7S 86.4E40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 00:0015.4S 85.3E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 06:0015.8S 84.3E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 12:0016.0S 84.1E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Apr 15, 18:0016.2S 83.5E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Apr 16, 00:0016.8S 82.4E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Apr 16, 06:0017.1S 82.1E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Apr 16, 12:0017.5S 80.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 16, 18:0017.1S 80.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 17, 00:0017.7S 79.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 17, 06:0018.0S 78.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 17, 12:0017.6S 78.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Apr 17, 18:0016.5S 78.9E30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Apr 18, 00:0016.0S 78.6E28 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Apr 18, 06:0015.8S 77.6E28 kt1009 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 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.