The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1996)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the North Indian between June 9, 1996 and June 12, 1996, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical storm. 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
North Indian
Dates
June 9, 1996 to June 12, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Identifier
IO021996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 9, 00:0016.6N 62.7E15 ktNot reported
Jun 9, 06:0016.9N 62.4E15 ktNot reported
Jun 9, 12:0017.1N 62.0E15 ktNot reported
Jun 9, 18:0017.3N 61.6E20 ktNot reported
Jun 10, 00:0017.5N 61.1E25 ktNot reported
Jun 10, 06:0017.7N 60.6E25 ktNot reported
Jun 10, 12:0017.9N 60.0E30 ktNot reported
Jun 10, 18:0018.2N 59.3E35 ktNot reported
Jun 11, 00:0018.6N 58.7E40 ktNot reported
Jun 11, 06:0019.2N 58.0E40 ktNot reported
Jun 11, 12:0020.1N 57.6E35 ktNot reported
Jun 11, 18:0020.7N 57.2E35 ktNot reported
Jun 12, 00:0021.0N 56.5E30 ktNot reported
Jun 12, 06:0021.0N 55.9E20 ktNot reported
Jun 12, 12:0021.0N 55.4E15 ktNot reported

Other North Indian 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.