The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Dianmu (2016)

Tropical Storm Dianmu peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between August 15, 2016 and August 20, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Dianmu, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 15, 2016 to August 20, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
220 nmi (407 km, 253 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
WP112016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 15, 06:0021.8N 117.1E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0021.7N 116.3E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0021.7N 115.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0021.7N 114.7E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0021.7N 114.0E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0021.7N 113.6E994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0021.6N 113.3E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0021.5N 113.2E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0021.3N 113.0E992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0021.1N 113.1E20 kt990 mbDisturbance
Aug 17, 18:0021.2N 112.5E20 kt990 mbDisturbance
Aug 18, 00:0021.3N 111.9E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 06:0020.8N 111.2E25 kt998 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0020.7N 109.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0020.5N 108.5E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0020.5N 107.7E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0020.9N 106.4E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0021.4N 104.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 18:0022.1N 102.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 00:0022.5N 100.6E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance

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.