The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Howard (2016)

Tropical Storm Howard peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 31, 2016 and August 7, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Howard, 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 31, 2016 to August 7, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 90 km (56 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi)
Overall size
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
60 kt (69 mph)
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP092016

Radar at PHMO as it neared land, Aug 7, 12:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 31, 12:0014.7N 119.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 18:0015.1N 120.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0015.5N 121.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0015.9N 122.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0016.4N 123.4W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0016.8N 124.5W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0017.4N 125.8W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0018.0N 127.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0018.5N 128.3W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0019.0N 129.5W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0019.5N 130.7W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0020.1N 131.9W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0020.6N 133.1W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 3, 18:0021.1N 134.5W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 4, 00:0021.5N 135.9W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 4, 06:0021.8N 137.4W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 4, 12:0022.0N 138.8W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 4, 18:0022.2N 140.1W35 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 5, 00:0022.2N 141.5W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 5, 06:0022.2N 143.0W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 5, 12:0022.2N 144.4W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 5, 18:0022.2N 145.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 00:0022.2N 147.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 06:0022.2N 148.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 12:0022.1N 150.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 18:0022.1N 151.6W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 7, 00:0022.0N 153.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 7, 06:0021.8N 154.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 7, 12:0021.7N 156.4W25 kt1009 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.