The 2023 season

Tropical Storm Midhili (2023)

Tropical Storm Midhili peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between November 13, 2023 and November 18, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Midhili, 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
North Indian
Dates
November 13, 2023 to November 18, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.3
Identifier
IO072023

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 13, 06:009.9N 94.1E15 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Nov 13, 12:0010.9N 93.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Nov 13, 18:0011.8N 91.7E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 00:0012.4N 90.6E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 06:0012.9N 89.4E20 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 12:0013.4N 87.9E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Nov 14, 18:0013.6N 87.1E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Nov 15, 00:0013.8N 86.5E20 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Nov 15, 06:0014.8N 86.8E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Nov 15, 12:0015.5N 86.9E20 kt1002 mbDisturbance
Nov 15, 18:0016.2N 86.9E25 kt999 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 00:0017.4N 87.1E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 06:0017.9N 87.3E25 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 12:0018.6N 87.6E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Nov 16, 18:0019.2N 88.2E30 kt999 mbTropical depression
Nov 17, 00:0020.3N 88.9E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 06:0021.5N 89.9E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 17, 12:0023.2N 91.2E30 kt998 mbTropical depression
Nov 17, 18:0023.7N 91.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Nov 18, 00:0023.7N 91.7E20 kt1005 mbTropical storm

Other North 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.