The 2016 season
99 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.
Radar
Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.











Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Deaths and damage
5 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 759 people in all, and 3 as having done damage, $17 billion of it.
The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.
North Atlantic
16 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 7 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 140.5.
- Hurricane AlexNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm BonnieNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm ColinNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm DanielleNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 2016 · 65 deaths
- Tropical Storm FionaNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Hurricane GastonNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Hurricane HermineNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm IanNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm KarlNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm JuliaNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Tropical Storm LisaNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Hurricane MatthewNorth Atlantic · 2016 · 603 deaths · $15 billion
- Hurricane NicoleNorth Atlantic · 2016
- Hurricane OttoNorth Atlantic · 2016 · 23 deaths · $192 million
Eastern Pacific
23 storms, 22 at tropical storm strength, 14 hurricanes, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 198.6.
- Hurricane PaliEastern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm AgathaEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane BlasEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane CeliaEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane DarbyEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane FrankEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm HowardEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm IvetteEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm JavierEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm KayEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane LesterEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane MadelineEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane NewtonEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane OrleneEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane PaineEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane UlikaEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm RoslynEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane SongdaEastern Pacific · 2016
- Hurricane SeymourEastern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm TinaEastern Pacific · 2016
Western Pacific
31 storms, 26 at tropical storm strength, 16 typhoons, 10 major; accumulated cyclone energy 245.0.
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon NepartakWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm LupitWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MirinaeWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon NidaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon OmaisWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm ConsonWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm ChanthuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm DianmuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MindulleWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon LionrockWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm KompasuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon NamtheunWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm MalouWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon MerantiWestern Pacific · 2016 · 30 deaths
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Depression RaiWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MalakasWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MegiWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon ChabaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm AereWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon SarikaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon HaimaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MeariWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon TokageWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon Nock-TenWestern Pacific · 2016
North Indian
8 storms, 5 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 14.5.
- Tropical Storm RoanuNorth Indian · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormNorth Indian · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2016
- Tropical Storm KyantNorth Indian · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Indian · 2016
- Tropical Storm NadaNorth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone VardahNorth Indian · 2016 · 38 deaths · $2.1 billion
South Indian
9 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 3 major; accumulated cyclone energy 97.7.
- Tropical Storm AnnabelleSouth Indian · 2016
- Tropical Storm BohaleSouth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone CorentinSouth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone StanSouth Indian · 2016
- Tropical Storm DayaSouth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone UriahSouth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone EmeraudeSouth Indian · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 2016
- Cyclone FantalaSouth Indian · 2016
South Pacific
12 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 5 at hurricane force, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 109.7.
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm TuniSouth Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 2016
- Cyclone UlaSouth Pacific · 2016
- Cyclone VictorSouth Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm TatianaSouth Pacific · 2016
- Cyclone WinstonSouth Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm YaloSouth Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016
- Cyclone ZenaSouth Pacific · 2016
- Cyclone AmosSouth Pacific · 2016
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.