The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Fiona (2016)

Tropical Storm Fiona peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 16, 2016 and August 24, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Radar

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

The storm

Basin
North Atlantic
Dates
August 16, 2016 to August 24, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 844 km (524 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
50 kt (58 mph)
Fastest the center moved
17 kt (20 mph)
Identifier
AL062016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 16, 18:0012.0N 32.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 00:0012.4N 33.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 06:0012.9N 34.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 17, 12:0013.7N 36.0W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0014.5N 37.3W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0015.2N 38.5W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0015.7N 39.4W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0016.1N 40.1W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0016.5N 40.8W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0016.9N 41.5W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0017.3N 42.3W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0017.7N 43.1W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0018.0N 43.9W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0018.5N 44.9W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0019.2N 46.1W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0020.0N 47.2W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0020.8N 48.4W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0021.5N 49.6W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0022.1N 51.1W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0022.6N 52.6W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0023.1N 54.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0023.7N 55.9W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0024.2N 57.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 12:0024.5N 59.1W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 18:0025.0N 60.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 00:0025.3N 61.7W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 06:0025.6N 62.9W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 12:0025.9N 64.0W20 kt1014 mbLow
Aug 23, 18:0026.3N 64.9W20 kt1015 mbLow
Aug 24, 00:0026.7N 65.8W20 kt1016 mbLow
Aug 24, 06:0027.1N 66.7W20 kt1016 mbLow

Other North Atlantic 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.