The 2023 season

Tropical Storm Ashley (2023)

Tropical Storm Ashley peaked at 50 kt in the South Indian between September 25, 2022 and September 29, 2022, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Ashley, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2023 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
September 25, 2022 to September 29, 2022
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1427 km (887 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Identifier
SH022023

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 25, 00:008.5S 88.0E25 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Sep 25, 06:009.3S 87.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:009.4S 86.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0010.5S 85.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 00:0011.6S 84.6E30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 06:0012.2S 84.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 12:0012.6S 83.4E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0013.0S 82.8E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0013.1S 82.2E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0013.1S 80.8E50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0013.1S 79.7E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0013.3S 78.8E40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0013.8S 77.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0014.4S 76.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 12:0015.2S 75.2E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 18:0015.7S 74.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 00:0015.9S 73.5E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Sep 29, 06:0016.6S 72.7E20 kt999 mbDisturbance
Sep 29, 12:0017.0S 72.4E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Sep 29, 18:0017.0S 71.8E25 kt999 mbTropical depression

Other South Indian storms of 2023

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.