The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Kompasu (2016)

Tropical Storm Kompasu peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between August 18, 2016 and August 22, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 996 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Kompasu, 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 18, 2016 to August 22, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
996 mb (29.41 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
WP132016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 18, 12:0022.3N 152.8E998 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0024.1N 153.4E996 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0025.5N 152.6E20 kt996 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 06:0027.2N 152.0E20 kt997 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 12:0028.9N 150.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 18:0030.8N 149.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 00:0032.6N 147.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 20, 06:0034.5N 145.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0036.2N 143.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0037.8N 142.3E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0038.9N 142.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0040.9N 143.0E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 12:0042.4N 143.8E25 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 18:0044.9N 144.9E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 00:0046.8N 145.8E1002 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 06:0048.2N 147.0E1002 mbExtratropical

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.