Typhoon Ben (1986)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

September 16, 1986 to October 2, 1986

Peak strength

Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)

Lowest pressure

920 mb (27.17 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 491 km (305 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

27.0

Identifier

WP161986

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Typhoon JudyWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 285 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Typhoon KenWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 290 kt · 980 mb
• Super Typhoon LolaWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 5150 kt · 910 mb
• Tropical Storm MacWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm45 kt · 992 mb
• Typhoon NancyWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 180 kt · 955 mb
• Tropical Storm OwenWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm50 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon PeggyWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 5140 kt · 900 mb
• Typhoon RogerWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 285 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm SarahWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm55 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Typhoon TipWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 180 kt · 965 mb
• Typhoon VeraWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 3110 kt · 925 mb
• Typhoon WayneWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 290 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm40 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm35 kt · 992 mb
• Typhoon AbbyWestern Pacific · 1986 · 13 deathsCat 295 kt · 945 mb
• Typhoon CarmenWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 3100 kt · 940 mb
• Tropical Storm DomWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Typhoon EllenWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 180 kt · 965 mb
• Typhoon ForrestWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 3110 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm55 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm HerbertWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm60 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm IdaWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm55 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon JoeWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 3100 kt · 940 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon KimWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 4135 kt · 905 mb
• Tropical Storm LexWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm40 kt · 994 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression
• Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 295 kt · 950 mb
• Typhoon NorrisWestern Pacific · 1986Cat 290 kt · 955 mb

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.

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.