The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Agatha (2016)

Tropical Storm Agatha peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 1, 2016 and July 8, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Agatha. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 1, 2016 to July 8, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1161 km (721 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP022016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 1, 06:0013.3N 114.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 1, 12:0013.7N 115.1W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 1, 18:0014.1N 115.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 2, 00:0014.5N 116.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 2, 06:0014.9N 117.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 2, 12:0015.3N 118.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 2, 18:0015.8N 119.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0016.3N 121.0W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0016.8N 122.1W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0017.2N 123.3W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0017.5N 124.4W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0017.8N 125.5W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0018.1N 126.6W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0018.4N 127.7W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0018.8N 128.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 5, 00:0019.1N 129.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 5, 06:0019.4N 130.9W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 5, 12:0019.6N 131.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 5, 18:0019.8N 132.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 6, 00:0020.0N 133.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 6, 06:0020.2N 134.9W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 6, 12:0020.4N 135.9W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 6, 18:0020.6N 137.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 7, 00:0020.7N 138.1W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 7, 06:0020.8N 139.1W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 7, 12:0020.8N 140.0W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 7, 18:0020.7N 140.8W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 8, 00:0020.6N 141.5W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 8, 06:0020.4N 142.2W25 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2016

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.