The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Malou (2016)

Tropical Storm Malou peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between September 5, 2016 and September 7, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Malou, 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
September 5, 2016 to September 7, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 134 km (83 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.5
Identifier
2016250N25125

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Sep 6, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 5, 12:0024.7N 124.7E1006 mbMixed
Sep 5, 18:0025.3N 125.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0026.2N 125.8E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0027.1N 127.0E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0028.2N 128.2E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0029.1N 129.2E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0029.5N 130.4E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0030.3N 132.1E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0031.5N 134.6ETropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0032.3N 136.4ETropical storm

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.