The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1996)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between October 24, 1996 and October 31, 1996, and made landfall.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
October 24, 1996 to October 31, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP341996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 24, 12:0010.5N 121.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 24, 18:009.7N 120.0E15 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 00:009.3N 118.7E15 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 06:008.9N 117.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 12:008.7N 116.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 25, 18:008.4N 114.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 26, 00:008.1N 113.7E15 ktNot reported
Oct 26, 06:007.7N 112.8E15 ktNot reported
Oct 26, 12:007.4N 112.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 26, 18:007.0N 111.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 27, 00:006.6N 110.9E20 ktNot reported
Oct 27, 06:006.3N 110.3E25 ktNot reported
Oct 27, 12:005.9N 109.6E30 ktNot reported
Oct 27, 18:005.8N 108.7E30 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 00:005.7N 107.7E25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 06:005.8N 106.6E25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 12:006.0N 105.5E25 ktNot reported
Oct 28, 18:006.5N 104.4E25 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 00:007.5N 103.7E25 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 06:008.6N 103.2E25 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 12:009.5N 102.8E25 ktNot reported
Oct 29, 18:0010.4N 102.3E25 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 00:0011.0N 101.6E25 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 06:0011.2N 100.7E20 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 12:0011.4N 99.6E15 ktNot reported
Oct 30, 18:0011.7N 98.3E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 00:0012.4N 97.3E25 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 06:0013.4N 96.7E25 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 12:0014.6N 97.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 31, 18:0015.7N 97.9E15 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.