Tropical Storm Atu (1996)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

March 4, 1996 to March 18, 1996

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Lowest pressure

987 mb (29.15 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 143 km (89 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

3.4

Identifier

SH211996

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

• Tropical Storm YasiSouth Pacific · 1996Tropical Storm45 kt · 987 mb
• Cyclone CelesteSouth Pacific · 1996Cat 165 kt · 965 mb
• Cyclone JacobSouth Pacific · 1996Cat 290 kt · 955 mb
• Tropical Storm DennisSouth Pacific · 1996Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm EthelSouth Pacific · 1996Tropical Storm45 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm ZakaSouth Pacific · 1996Tropical Storm40 kt · 995 mb
• Tropical Depression ZakaSouth Pacific · 1996Tropical Depression30 kt · 997 mb
• Cyclone BetiSouth Pacific · 1996Cat 3105 kt · 935 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.