The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical storm (1996)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between November 4, 1996 and November 12, 1996.

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
November 4, 1996 to November 12, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1986 km (1234 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.4
Identifier
WP381996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 4, 06:0021.4N 175.1E25 ktNot reported
Nov 4, 12:0022.4N 174.9E35 ktNot reported
Nov 4, 18:0023.1N 174.3E40 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 00:0023.5N 173.7E50 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 06:0023.6N 173.1E50 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 12:0023.6N 172.5E45 ktNot reported
Nov 5, 18:0023.7N 172.1E40 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 00:0024.0N 171.8E35 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 06:0024.3N 171.8E35 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 12:0024.5N 172.0E35 ktNot reported
Nov 6, 18:0024.7N 172.2E35 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 00:0025.0N 172.3E35 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 06:0025.4N 172.4E35 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 12:0026.7N 171.8E35 ktNot reported
Nov 7, 18:0027.6N 170.5E35 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 00:0027.0N 169.0E35 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 06:0026.6N 169.3E35 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 12:0026.5N 169.8E30 ktNot reported
Nov 8, 18:0026.5N 170.2E30 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 00:0026.3N 170.4E25 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 06:0026.0N 170.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 12:0025.6N 170.7E25 ktNot reported
Nov 9, 18:0025.1N 170.6E25 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 00:0024.5N 170.7E25 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 06:0024.0N 171.0E25 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 12:0024.0N 171.9E30 ktNot reported
Nov 10, 18:0023.9N 173.1E30 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 00:0023.8N 174.4E30 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 06:0023.7N 175.8E25 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 12:0023.3N 177.3E25 ktNot reported
Nov 11, 18:0022.8N 178.8E25 ktNot reported
Nov 12, 00:0022.2N 179.1W25 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.