Tropical Storm Bohale (2016)

Tropical Storm Bohale peaked at 35 kt in the South Indian between December 7, 2015 and December 17, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Bohale, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2016 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: South Indian
Dates: December 7, 2015 to December 17, 2015
Peak strength: Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure: 996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 934 km (580 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 1.3
Identifier: SH052016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 7, 18:00	8.6S 78.6E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 8, 00:00	9.4S 76.9E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 8, 06:00	10.5S 75.6E	25 kt	1006 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 12:00	10.6S 73.5E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 8, 18:00	11.1S 72.9E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 9, 00:00	11.6S 72.5E	25 kt	1002 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 9, 06:00	12.1S 72.3E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 9, 12:00	12.7S 72.2E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 9, 18:00	13.3S 71.9E	25 kt	1001 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 10, 00:00	13.9S 71.3E	30 kt	999 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 10, 06:00	14.3S 70.5E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	14.8S 70.1E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	15.4S 69.8E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 00:00	15.9S 69.5E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 06:00	16.5S 69.0E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 12:00	16.9S 68.5E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 18:00	17.3S 68.1E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 00:00	17.9S 67.9E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 06:00	18.9S 68.2E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 12:00	19.8S 67.8E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	20.5S 67.5E	35 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 13, 00:00	21.3S 67.1E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 13, 06:00	22.3S 66.7E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 13, 12:00	23.4S 66.3E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 13, 18:00	24.1S 66.0E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 14, 00:00	24.9S 65.9E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 14, 06:00	25.8S 65.9E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 14, 12:00	26.4S 65.8E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 14, 18:00	26.7S 65.5E	25 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 15, 00:00	26.9S 65.4E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 15, 06:00	27.3S 65.3E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 15, 12:00	27.7S 65.3E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 15, 18:00	28.1S 65.4E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 16, 00:00	28.8S 65.7E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 16, 06:00	29.6S 66.5E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 16, 12:00	30.4S 67.9E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 16, 18:00	31.1S 69.6E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance
Dec 17, 00:00	31.6S 71.6E	20 kt	1007 mb	Disturbance

Other South Indian 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.