The 1996 season

Typhoon Willie (1996)

Typhoon Willie reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 15, 1996 and September 23, 1996, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Willie, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
September 15, 1996 to September 23, 1996
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.0
Identifier
WP271996

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 15, 18:0018.6N 107.2E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0018.7N 107.2E15 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0018.5N 107.5E15 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0018.3N 107.8E15 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0018.1N 108.1E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0017.8N 108.4E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0017.5N 108.7E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0017.3N 109.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0017.2N 109.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0017.2N 110.2E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0017.3N 110.8E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0017.9N 111.4E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0018.6N 111.7E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0019.3N 111.8E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0019.9N 111.5E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0020.1N 111.3E65 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0020.2N 111.1E65 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0020.2N 110.6E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 06:0020.1N 110.1E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 12:0020.0N 109.5E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 20, 18:0020.0N 108.9E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 00:0019.8N 108.4E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 06:0019.6N 108.0E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0019.4N 107.6E55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0019.3N 107.2E65 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0019.2N 106.8E60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0019.0N 106.3E60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0018.8N 105.7E60 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0018.2N 104.8E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0017.5N 104.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0017.1N 103.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0016.5N 101.7E15 kt1004 mbTropical storm

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.