The 2016 season

Hurricane Frank (2016)

Hurricane Frank reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 21, 2016 and July 30, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 979 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Frank, 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 21, 2016 to July 30, 2016
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
979 mb (28.91 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 315 km (196 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
90 kt (104 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP072016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 21, 06:0013.2N 101.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0014.0N 102.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0014.8N 103.6W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0015.6N 104.7W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0016.4N 105.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0017.2N 106.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0017.7N 107.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0018.0N 108.5W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0018.3N 109.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0018.6N 109.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0019.0N 110.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0019.3N 110.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0019.6N 111.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0019.8N 111.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0019.9N 112.3W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0020.1N 112.8W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0020.2N 113.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0020.3N 113.7W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0020.5N 114.2W45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 00:0020.7N 114.7W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 06:0020.9N 115.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 26, 12:0021.1N 116.2W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 18:0021.3N 117.2W70 kt986 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 00:0021.6N 118.2W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 06:0022.0N 119.2W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 12:0022.4N 120.3W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0022.9N 121.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0023.2N 122.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0023.4N 123.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0023.6N 124.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 28, 18:0024.0N 124.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 29, 00:0024.1N 125.1W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 29, 06:0024.2N 125.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 29, 12:0024.2N 126.0W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 29, 18:0024.1N 126.4W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 30, 00:0023.8N 126.7W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 30, 06:0023.6N 127.0W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 30, 12:0023.4N 127.3W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 30, 18:0023.2N 127.7W20 kt1011 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.