The 1996 season

Super Typhoon Sally (1996)

Super Typhoon Sally reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between September 2, 1996 and September 10, 1996, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Super Typhoon Sally, 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
September 2, 1996 to September 10, 1996
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
16.8
Fastest the center moved
22 kt (25 mph)
Identifier
WP231996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 2, 00:008.1N 147.7E15 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 06:008.5N 146.7E15 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 12:008.9N 145.7E15 ktNot reported
Sep 2, 18:009.2N 144.5E15 ktNot reported
Sep 3, 00:009.8N 143.1E15 ktNot reported
Sep 3, 06:0010.5N 141.6E20 ktNot reported
Sep 3, 12:0011.3N 140.2E20 ktNot reported
Sep 3, 18:0012.1N 138.4E20 ktNot reported
Sep 4, 00:0012.6N 137.1E20 ktNot reported
Sep 4, 06:0013.1N 136.1E20 ktNot reported
Sep 4, 12:0013.6N 135.4E25 ktNot reported
Sep 4, 18:0014.0N 134.8E25 ktNot reported
Sep 5, 00:0014.3N 134.2E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 5, 06:0014.6N 133.6E30 kt1002 mbMixed
Sep 5, 12:0015.0N 133.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0015.5N 132.3E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0016.0N 131.6E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0016.7N 130.5E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0017.2N 129.3E75 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0017.6N 128.2E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0018.1N 126.4E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0018.6N 124.8E100 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0018.9N 123.2E115 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0019.1N 121.5E140 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 00:0019.4N 119.7E135 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0019.8N 117.7E130 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0020.2N 115.7E125 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0020.6N 113.7E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0021.0N 111.5E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0021.5N 109.3E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0022.0N 107.2E75 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0022.6N 105.1E50 kt992 mbMixed
Sep 10, 00:0023.1N 103.5E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0023.4N 102.4E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0023.6N 101.5E15 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0025.1N 100.2E1004 mbTropical storm

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.