The 2023 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2023)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the South Indian between February 22, 2023 and March 10, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, 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
February 22, 2023 to March 10, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
2023054S19117

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Feb 22, 18:0018.5S 116.9E10 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 00:0018.5S 116.7E10 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 06:0018.3S 116.5E10 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 12:0018.2S 116.6E15 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 23, 18:0018.1S 116.7E15 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 00:0018.0S 117.0E15 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 06:0017.9S 117.1E15 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 12:0017.8S 117.2E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 24, 18:0017.5S 117.5E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 00:0017.1S 117.7E15 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 06:0016.6S 118.3E15 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 12:0016.0S 120.1E25 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Feb 25, 18:0015.5S 120.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 00:0014.8S 121.3E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0014.1S 122.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0014.0S 122.9E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0013.9S 124.0E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0013.7S 125.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0013.9S 126.4E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0014.5S 127.4E40 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0015.0S 128.5E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0015.8S 129.5E30 kt998 mbNot reported
Feb 28, 06:0016.1S 129.6E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Feb 28, 12:0017.0S 130.2E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Feb 28, 18:0017.4S 130.9E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 00:0017.9S 131.4E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 06:0017.8S 130.6E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 12:0017.2S 130.7E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 1, 18:0017.0S 131.0E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 2, 00:0017.1S 131.2E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 2, 06:0017.3S 131.9E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 2, 12:0017.4S 132.7E15 kt999 mbNot reported
Mar 2, 18:0017.4S 133.5E15 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 3, 00:0017.3S 133.8E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 3, 06:0017.1S 134.5E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 3, 12:0017.0S 135.2E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 3, 18:0016.9S 136.0E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 4, 00:0016.8S 136.7E15 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 4, 06:0016.6S 137.2E15 kt1001 mbNot reported
Mar 4, 12:0016.4S 137.3E15 kt1001 mbNot reported
Mar 4, 18:0016.2S 137.4E15 kt1001 mbNot reported
Mar 5, 00:0016.0S 137.5E15 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 5, 06:0016.0S 138.0E20 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 5, 12:0016.1S 138.1E20 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 5, 18:0016.2S 138.2E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 6, 00:0016.0S 138.0E20 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 6, 06:0016.3S 137.9E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 6, 12:0016.5S 138.1E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 6, 18:0016.8S 138.4E20 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 7, 00:0017.0S 138.6E25 kt999 mbNot reported
Mar 7, 06:0017.4S 138.2E25 kt997 mbNot reported
Mar 7, 12:0017.5S 138.3E25 kt997 mbNot reported
Mar 7, 18:0017.6S 138.5E25 kt997 mbNot reported
Mar 8, 00:0017.7S 138.6E25 kt997 mbNot reported
Mar 8, 06:0018.0S 139.1E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 8, 12:0018.0S 139.7E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 8, 18:0017.9S 140.3E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 9, 00:0018.0S 140.7E25 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 9, 06:0018.4S 140.6E25 kt998 mbNot reported
Mar 9, 12:0018.6S 140.5E20 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 9, 18:0018.8S 140.3E20 kt1000 mbNot reported
Mar 10, 00:0019.0S 140.2E15 kt1004 mbNot reported
Mar 10, 06:0019.1S 140.0E15 kt1002 mbNot reported

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. 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.