The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1996)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 15, 1996 and September 20, 1996.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Unnamed tropical depression, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 15, 1996 to September 20, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 459 km (285 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
CP011996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 15, 18:0013.6N 143.4WNot reported
Sep 16, 00:0012.8N 143.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 16, 06:0013.0N 144.3W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 16, 12:0013.4N 145.2W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 16, 18:0013.6N 146.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 00:0013.9N 147.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 06:0014.0N 147.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 12:0014.3N 148.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0014.6N 148.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0014.8N 149.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0014.6N 150.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0014.3N 151.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0014.3N 152.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0014.4N 154.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0014.6N 155.2W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 12:0014.9N 156.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 19, 18:0014.9N 157.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 20, 00:0015.0N 159.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 20, 06:0015.3N 160.4W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 20, 12:0015.7N 161.6W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 20, 18:0016.4N 162.6W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.