The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Fezile (2022)

Tropical Storm Fezile peaked at 55 kt in the South Indian between February 15, 2022 and February 20, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Fezile, 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 15, 2022 to February 20, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1448 km (900 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
2022046S15095

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 15, 06:0014.7S 94.7ETropical storm
Feb 15, 12:0014.8S 93.7ETropical storm
Feb 15, 18:0015.4S 92.8ETropical storm
Feb 16, 00:0016.0S 91.8ETropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0016.6S 91.0ETropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0017.1S 90.5ETropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0017.8S 89.9E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0018.6S 89.4E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0019.7S 88.8E40 kt988 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0021.5S 88.1E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0023.1S 87.6E45 kt984 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0024.6S 87.1E45 kt981 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0025.9S 86.8E45 kt981 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0027.2S 86.8E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 18:0029.7S 87.3E50 kt978 mbTropical storm
Feb 19, 00:0031.9S 87.8E55 kt975 mbExtratropical
Feb 19, 06:0033.5S 87.9E55 kt975 mbExtratropical
Feb 19, 12:0035.3S 88.7E55 kt977 mbExtratropical
Feb 19, 18:0037.3S 89.9E50 kt980 mbExtratropical
Feb 20, 00:0039.1S 91.6EExtratropical
Feb 20, 06:0040.3S 94.3EExtratropical
Feb 20, 12:0041.6S 98.0EExtratropical

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.