Tropical Storm Greg (1996)

Tropical Storm Greg peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between December 21, 1996 and December 27, 1996, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Greg, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1996 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: December 21, 1996 to December 27, 1996
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 1.2
Identifier: WP431996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Status
Dec 21, 06:00	7.8N 110.0E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 21, 12:00	8.0N 110.1E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 21, 18:00	8.0N 110.5E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 22, 00:00	8.0N 110.7E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 22, 06:00	7.9N 110.9E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 22, 12:00	7.8N 111.1E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 22, 18:00	7.7N 111.3E	15 kt	Not reported
Dec 23, 00:00	7.6N 111.4E	20 kt	Not reported
Dec 23, 06:00	7.5N 111.5E	25 kt	Not reported
Dec 23, 12:00	7.4N 111.6E	25 kt	Not reported
Dec 23, 18:00	7.3N 111.8E	25 kt	Not reported
Dec 24, 00:00	7.3N 112.1E	25 kt	Not reported
Dec 24, 06:00	7.3N 112.4E	30 kt	Not reported
Dec 24, 12:00	7.2N 112.9E	35 kt	Not reported
Dec 24, 18:00	6.9N 113.4E	40 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 25, 00:00	6.6N 113.9E	45 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 25, 06:00	6.5N 114.4E	45 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 25, 12:00	6.5N 114.9E	45 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 25, 18:00	6.6N 115.8E	45 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 26, 00:00	6.7N 117.3E	35 kt	Tropical storm
Dec 26, 06:00	5.8N 119.2E	30 kt	Not reported
Dec 26, 12:00	5.5N 121.3E	30 kt	Not reported
Dec 26, 18:00	4.9N 123.4E	30 kt	Not reported
Dec 27, 00:00	4.1N 125.0E	25 kt	Not reported
Dec 27, 06:00	3.3N 126.1E	20 kt	Not reported

Other Western Pacific storms of 1996

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.