The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Lupit (2016)

Tropical Storm Lupit peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 22, 2016 and July 26, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Lupit. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
July 22, 2016 to July 26, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 261 km (162 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.7
Identifier
WP042016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 22, 18:0024.7N 151.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0025.3N 152.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0026.4N 154.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Jul 23, 12:0027.5N 155.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0028.9N 157.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0030.8N 158.4E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0033.0N 159.3E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0035.2N 159.4E40 kt993 mbExtratropical
Jul 24, 18:0037.5N 159.3E40 kt993 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 00:0040.5N 159.2E1004 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 06:0044.1N 157.6E1008 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 12:0045.6N 156.5E1010 mbExtratropical
Jul 25, 18:0046.9N 155.5E1012 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 00:0047.5N 153.8E1014 mbExtratropical
Jul 26, 06:0048.6N 152.4E1014 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.