The 1956 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1956)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between June 16, 1956 and June 21, 1956, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical storm, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1956 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
Western Pacific
Dates
June 16, 1956 to June 21, 1956
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1445 km (898 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
WP041956

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 16, 00:0020.0N 159.0E1008 mbMixed
Jun 16, 06:0020.0N 157.4E1006 mbMixed
Jun 16, 12:0020.0N 155.9E1006 mbMixed
Jun 16, 18:0020.0N 155.5E1006 mbMixed
Jun 17, 00:0020.0N 155.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0019.9N 154.9E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0019.8N 154.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0019.7N 153.3E1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0019.8N 152.5E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0020.2N 152.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0020.6N 152.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0020.8N 151.7E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0020.9N 151.2E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0020.5N 150.6E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0020.4N 150.1E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0020.5N 149.6E35 kt1006 mbMixed
Jun 20, 00:0020.7N 149.2E30 kt1008 mbMixed
Jun 20, 06:0021.0N 148.5E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jun 20, 12:0023.2N 148.8E1008 mbMixed
Jun 20, 18:0023.7N 148.4E1008 mbMixed
Jun 21, 00:0024.0N 148.0E1008 mbMixed

Other Western Pacific storms of 1956

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.