The 2023 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2023)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the South Indian between March 25, 2023 and March 31, 2023, with a lowest pressure of 997 mb.

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
March 25, 2023 to March 31, 2023
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
997 mb (29.44 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 346 km (215 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
2023084S11065

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Mar 25, 06:0011.4S 64.9E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 25, 12:0012.2S 64.1E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 25, 18:0013.0S 63.5E15 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 26, 00:0013.8S 63.4E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Mar 26, 06:0014.4S 63.5E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Mar 26, 12:0014.8S 63.6E20 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Mar 26, 18:0015.6S 63.4E25 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Mar 27, 00:0016.8S 63.9E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 27, 06:0016.8S 63.7E40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Mar 27, 12:0016.7S 63.9E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Mar 27, 18:0016.8S 63.9E35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Mar 28, 00:0016.8S 63.8E30 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Mar 28, 06:0016.7S 63.5E25 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Mar 28, 12:0016.7S 63.5E25 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Mar 28, 18:0016.9S 63.4E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 29, 00:0017.0S 63.0E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 29, 06:0017.2S 62.4E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 29, 12:0017.1S 61.8E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 29, 18:0017.0S 60.9E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 30, 00:0017.0S 59.9E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 30, 06:0017.1S 58.5E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 30, 12:0016.9S 57.1E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 30, 18:0016.4S 56.0E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 31, 00:0015.8S 55.0E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Mar 31, 06:0015.1S 54.2E20 kt1009 mbDisturbance

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.