The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Estelle (2016)

Tropical Storm Estelle peaked at 60 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 15, 2016 and July 24, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Estelle, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 15, 2016 to July 24, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 542 km (337 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP062016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 15, 00:0013.5N 104.5W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 15, 06:0013.7N 105.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 15, 12:0014.0N 106.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 18:0014.4N 106.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 00:0014.8N 107.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0015.3N 108.1W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0015.7N 108.7W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0015.9N 109.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0016.0N 110.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0016.1N 110.8W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0016.3N 111.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0016.5N 112.2W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0016.8N 113.0W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0017.2N 113.7W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0017.6N 114.4W55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0017.9N 115.3W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0018.1N 116.2W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0018.4N 117.1W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0018.7N 118.1W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0018.9N 119.2W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0019.0N 120.4W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0019.0N 121.6W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0019.1N 122.7W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0019.2N 123.8W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0019.3N 124.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0019.5N 126.1W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0019.9N 127.4W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0020.4N 128.9W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0020.8N 130.2W40 kt1004 mbLow
Jul 22, 06:0021.1N 131.5W35 kt1005 mbLow
Jul 22, 12:0021.5N 132.8W35 kt1005 mbLow
Jul 22, 18:0022.1N 134.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 23, 00:0022.6N 135.3W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 23, 06:0023.0N 136.4W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 23, 12:0023.4N 137.5W30 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 23, 18:0023.7N 138.8W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 24, 00:0024.0N 140.1W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 24, 06:0024.3N 141.6W25 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.