The 2020 season

Tropical Storm Mangga (2020)

Tropical Storm Mangga peaked at 40 kt in the South Indian between May 18, 2020 and May 23, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mangga, 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
May 18, 2020 to May 23, 2020
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 494 km (307 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
SH272020

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
May 18, 00:004.0S 95.1E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 18, 06:004.3S 95.0E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 18, 12:004.5S 94.8E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 18, 18:004.8S 94.7E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 19, 00:005.0S 94.5E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm
May 19, 06:005.1S 93.9E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
May 19, 12:005.3S 93.1E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
May 19, 18:005.7S 92.4E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
May 20, 00:006.0S 92.3E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
May 20, 06:006.2S 92.4E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
May 20, 12:006.5S 92.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
May 20, 18:007.0S 92.7E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
May 21, 00:007.5S 92.5E40 kt997 mbTropical storm
May 21, 06:008.3S 92.4E40 kt997 mbTropical storm
May 21, 12:009.0S 92.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
May 21, 18:009.6S 93.3E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 22, 00:0010.4S 93.8E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 22, 06:0011.2S 94.4E30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
May 22, 12:0012.5S 95.1E30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
May 22, 18:0014.2S 95.9E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
May 23, 00:0015.9S 97.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
May 23, 06:0017.5S 98.7E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
May 23, 12:0019.0S 101.0E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
May 23, 18:0021.3S 105.1E30 kt1000 mbExtratropical

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.