2014 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
The cyclone season in 2014 Nordindik has no official boundaries as is usual in other basins, but runs throughout the year. However, the tropical cyclones form in this basin is usually from April to December, the months before and after the monsoon season, ie April / May and October / November are the most active. A tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean is called the cyclone.
The Regional Specialized Meteorological competent Centre ( RSMC ) is the India Meteorological Department in New Delhi. This awards for those tropical cyclones that reach at least the status of a cyclone, a name. Low pressure areas ( depending on the wind speed Depression or deep depression ) are numbered consecutively, with the letters BOB indicates that the system formed in the Bay of Bengal. The letters ARB are mutatis mutandis to the Arabian Sea.
Through the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) in Honolulu independent forecasts and warnings are issued for the U.S. facilities in the Indian Ocean. By the JTWC classification according to the Saffir -Simpson Hurricane Scale, the RSMC used for classification own criteria occurs at, which include the measurement of the ongoing wind speed is based on the basis of a three-minute observation.
Storm names
Tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean are named by the RSMC the India Meteorological Department. The names are used once, so there is no name of devastating storms are deleted after the end of the season from the list of names of tropical cyclones.
- Nanauk (unused)
- Hudhud (unused)
- Nilofar (unused)
- Priya (unused)
- Komen (unused)
- Chapala (unused)
Storms
Depression BOB 01 ( 01B )
Early on January 4, reported the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD ) the formation of a depression over the southwestern Bay of Bengal, about 250 km east of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. At the same time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center ( JTWC ) began to monitor the system. On the evening of the same day, the depression only very slowly moving towards the west - northwest and was now about 150 km east- northeast of Trincomalee. Even early on January 5, the system was unable to significantly step up and stayed with the status as depression. 24 hours later she went near Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka on land. On the morning of the 7th of January, the Indian Meteorological Department issued the final warning.