The 1996 season

Tropical Storm Rick (1996)

Tropical Storm Rick peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 27, 1996 and September 3, 1996.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Rick, 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
August 27, 1996 to September 3, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1356 km (843 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Identifier
WP221996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 27, 00:0021.5N 168.0E25 ktNot reported
Aug 27, 06:0022.3N 168.3E30 ktNot reported
Aug 27, 12:0022.8N 169.0E35 ktNot reported
Aug 27, 18:0022.9N 169.9E35 ktNot reported
Aug 28, 00:0023.0N 170.8E35 ktNot reported
Aug 28, 06:0023.4N 171.7E30 ktNot reported
Aug 28, 12:0024.0N 172.6E30 ktNot reported
Aug 28, 18:0024.8N 173.5E30 ktNot reported
Aug 29, 00:0025.9N 173.9E30 ktNot reported
Aug 29, 06:0027.1N 173.8E30 ktNot reported
Aug 29, 12:0028.3N 173.6E30 ktNot reported
Aug 29, 18:0029.4N 173.2E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0030.3N 173.0E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0030.7N 172.7E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0031.0N 172.4E35 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0031.2N 172.3E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0031.5N 172.3E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0031.9N 172.5E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0032.2N 173.1E30 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0032.5N 174.0E30 ktTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0032.9N 175.3E30 ktNot reported
Sep 1, 06:0033.3N 176.8E25 ktNot reported
Sep 1, 12:0033.7N 178.6E25 ktNot reported
Sep 1, 18:0034.5N 179.2W30 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 00:0035.5N 177.1W30 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 06:0036.5N 175.0W30 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 12:0037.8N 173.1W30 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 18:0039.2N 171.3W30 ktNot reported
Sep 3, 00:0040.7N 169.6W30 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.