The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Chanthu (2016)

Tropical Storm Chanthu peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between August 11, 2016 and August 18, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
August 11, 2016 to August 18, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
978 mb (28.88 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
40 kt (46 mph)
Fastest the center moved
37 kt (43 mph)
Identifier
WP092016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 11, 12:0015.6N 138.2ETropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0015.8N 138.1ETropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0016.2N 138.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0016.5N 138.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0016.1N 138.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 12, 18:0016.6N 138.8E20 kt1001 mbDisturbance
Aug 13, 00:0017.3N 139.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 06:0018.1N 140.2E25 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0019.0N 141.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0019.8N 142.1E30 kt997 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 00:0021.1N 143.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0022.6N 144.0E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0023.9N 144.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0025.2N 144.9E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0026.6N 144.6E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0027.7N 144.5E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0029.3N 143.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0030.3N 142.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0031.5N 141.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0032.8N 141.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0034.2N 140.9E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0035.9N 141.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0037.9N 141.7E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0040.7N 142.8E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0044.2N 143.3E60 kt978 mbExtratropical
Aug 17, 18:0047.8N 144.6E984 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 00:0051.5N 145.4E982 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 06:0054.6N 146.6E980 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 12:0058.0N 147.6E982 mbExtratropical
Aug 18, 18:0060.6N 149.1E986 mbExtratropical

Other Western 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.