The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Anika (2022)

Tropical Storm Anika peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between February 23, 2022 and March 4, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Anika, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2022 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
February 23, 2022 to March 4, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
SH152022

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 23, 18:0012.7S 129.1E20 kt1000 mbDisturbance
Feb 24, 00:0012.8S 128.8E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 06:0012.9S 128.5E25 kt996 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 12:0012.6S 128.0E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Feb 24, 18:0012.5S 127.8E30 kt992 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 00:0012.5S 128.0E30 kt994 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 06:0012.3S 128.0E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Feb 25, 12:0012.6S 127.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0012.8S 127.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0012.9S 127.5E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0013.2S 127.2E55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0013.9S 127.1E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0014.2S 126.8E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0014.4S 126.6E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 06:0014.4S 126.6E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 12:0014.8S 126.3E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Feb 27, 18:0015.3S 125.9E30 kt990 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 00:0015.8S 125.6E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 06:0016.3S 125.2E25 kt993 mbTropical depression
Feb 28, 12:0016.6S 124.5E20 kt996 mbDisturbance
Feb 28, 18:0017.5S 123.7E20 kt996 mbDisturbance
Mar 1, 00:0017.7S 123.2E20 kt996 mbDisturbance
Mar 1, 06:0017.5S 122.6E25 kt992 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 12:0017.6S 122.0E30 kt991 mbTropical depression
Mar 1, 18:0018.2S 121.6E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 00:0018.8S 121.1E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 06:0019.4S 120.6E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 12:0019.9S 120.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 18:0020.4S 121.1E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Mar 3, 00:0021.0S 121.7E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Mar 3, 06:0022.4S 122.6E30 kt984 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 12:0023.1S 123.0E25 kt991 mbTropical depression
Mar 3, 18:0023.5S 123.3E20 kt993 mbDisturbance
Mar 4, 00:0022.7S 123.9E25 kt1001 mbDisturbance

Other South Indian storms of 2022

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.