The 2021 season

Tropical Storm Danilo (2021)

Tropical Storm Danilo peaked at 60 kt in the South Indian between December 30, 2020 and January 12, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Danilo, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2021 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
December 30, 2020 to January 12, 2021
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 44 km (27 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.9
Identifier
SH082021

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 30, 12:0012.0S 72.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Dec 30, 18:0012.1S 72.3E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 00:0011.9S 72.4E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 06:0012.1S 72.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 12:0012.0S 72.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Dec 31, 18:0012.0S 72.6E25 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jan 1, 00:0012.1S 72.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 1, 06:0012.0S 72.3E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Jan 1, 12:0011.6S 72.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 1, 18:0011.1S 71.9E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 00:0010.7S 72.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 06:0010.9S 72.2E45 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 12:0011.1S 72.3E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 2, 18:0011.2S 72.5E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 00:0011.4S 72.7E50 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 06:0011.7S 73.4E55 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 12:0012.1S 74.3E55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 3, 18:0013.0S 75.3E60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 00:0013.8S 75.8E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 06:0014.7S 76.1E50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 12:0015.4S 76.2E45 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 4, 18:0015.7S 76.3E50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 00:0016.0S 76.6E60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 06:0016.4S 76.6E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 12:0016.5S 76.4E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jan 5, 18:0016.6S 76.3E55 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 00:0016.6S 76.0E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 06:0016.5S 75.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 12:0016.4S 74.7E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 6, 18:0016.3S 73.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 00:0016.3S 72.7E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 7, 06:0016.3S 71.3E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 12:0016.3S 70.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 7, 18:0016.7S 69.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 00:0017.0S 68.0E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 06:0017.3S 66.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 8, 12:0017.1S 65.7E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jan 8, 18:0017.2S 65.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 00:0017.6S 64.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Jan 9, 06:0017.5S 63.6E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 12:0017.8S 63.1E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Jan 9, 18:0018.1S 62.7E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 00:0019.1S 61.4E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 06:0019.4S 60.4E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 12:0019.4S 59.7E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 10, 18:0019.2S 59.1E15 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 00:0019.3S 58.7E15 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 06:0019.5S 58.4E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 12:0019.8S 57.6E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 11, 18:0019.7S 57.1E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 00:0019.4S 56.2E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 06:0019.2S 55.5E15 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 12:0019.7S 55.1E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Jan 12, 18:0019.7S 54.1E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 2021

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.