The 1996 season

Tropical Storm Marty (1996)

Tropical Storm Marty peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 11, 1996 and August 17, 1996, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Marty. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 11, 1996 to August 17, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
WP161996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 11, 12:0022.9N 108.4E15 ktNot reported
Aug 11, 18:0022.1N 108.4E15 ktDisturbance
Aug 12, 00:0021.6N 108.3E20 ktDisturbance
Aug 12, 06:0021.3N 108.2E25 ktDisturbance
Aug 12, 12:0021.1N 108.0E25 ktDisturbance
Aug 12, 18:0021.0N 107.7E25 ktDisturbance
Aug 13, 00:0020.8N 107.5E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0020.6N 107.3E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0020.5N 107.1E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0020.3N 106.8E50 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0020.2N 106.5E50 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0020.2N 106.1E40 ktTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0020.1N 105.7E30 ktMixed
Aug 14, 18:0020.2N 105.3E30 ktMixed
Aug 15, 00:0020.3N 104.9E25 ktDisturbance
Aug 15, 06:0020.3N 104.5E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0020.3N 104.0E15 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0020.3N 103.6E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 00:0020.3N 103.3E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 06:0020.3N 103.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 12:0020.3N 102.7E15 ktNot reported
Aug 16, 18:0020.4N 102.4E15 ktNot reported
Aug 17, 00:0020.4N 102.1E15 ktNot 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.