Hurricanes

The 1996 season

115 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

1 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 22 people in all, and 1 as having done damage, $662 million of it.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

13 storms, 13 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 6 major; accumulated cyclone energy 166.2.

Eastern Pacific

14 storms, 10 at tropical storm strength, 6 hurricanes, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 96.1.

Western Pacific

47 storms, 35 at tropical storm strength, 20 typhoons, 9 major; accumulated cyclone energy 375.0.

North Indian

10 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 4 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 33.9.

South Indian

22 storms, 20 at tropical storm strength, 13 at hurricane force, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 195.6.

South Pacific

9 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 3 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 42.6.

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.