The 2022 season

Tropical Storm Sitrang (2022)

Tropical Storm Sitrang peaked at 45 kt in the North Indian between October 21, 2022 and October 25, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sitrang, 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
North Indian
Dates
October 21, 2022 to October 25, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
IO052022

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 21, 18:0012.6N 93.3E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Oct 22, 00:0013.2N 92.5E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0014.0N 91.5E25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0014.6N 90.4E30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:0015.1N 89.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0015.5N 88.4E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 06:0015.3N 88.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0015.6N 88.2E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0016.9N 88.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0018.0N 89.4E40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0019.5N 89.9E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0021.1N 90.4E45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0024.8N 91.2E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0024.5N 91.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm

Other North 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.