The 1996 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1996)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between December 12, 1996 and December 21, 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
December 12, 1996 to December 21, 1996
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Identifier
WP411996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Dec 12, 18:004.2N 103.7E15 ktNot reported
Dec 13, 00:004.2N 104.3E15 ktNot reported
Dec 13, 06:004.2N 104.9E20 ktNot reported
Dec 13, 12:004.2N 105.5E20 ktNot reported
Dec 13, 18:004.2N 106.1E20 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 00:004.2N 106.6E25 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 06:004.2N 107.1E25 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 12:004.1N 107.4E25 ktNot reported
Dec 14, 18:003.9N 107.7E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 00:003.8N 107.9E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 06:003.6N 108.2E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 12:003.5N 108.4E25 ktNot reported
Dec 15, 18:003.3N 108.7E25 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 00:003.2N 109.3E25 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 06:003.3N 109.7E25 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 12:003.5N 110.1E25 ktNot reported
Dec 16, 18:004.0N 110.5E25 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 00:004.4N 110.3E30 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 06:004.5N 110.1E30 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 12:004.6N 109.8E30 ktNot reported
Dec 17, 18:004.6N 109.6E30 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 00:004.6N 109.5E30 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 06:004.6N 109.3E30 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 12:004.7N 109.1E30 ktNot reported
Dec 18, 18:004.8N 109.0E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 00:004.9N 108.8E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 06:004.9N 108.5E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 12:004.8N 108.2E25 ktNot reported
Dec 19, 18:004.8N 107.7E25 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 00:004.8N 107.0E25 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 06:004.9N 106.4E25 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 12:005.0N 105.8E20 ktNot reported
Dec 20, 18:005.1N 105.3E20 ktNot reported
Dec 21, 00:005.2N 104.8E20 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.