The 2016 season

Typhoon Megi (2016)

Typhoon Megi reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between September 21, 2016 and September 29, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 933 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Megi. 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
September 21, 2016 to September 29, 2016
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
933 mb (27.55 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.0
Identifier
WP202016

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 22, 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 21, 06:0010.0N 149.8ETropical storm
Sep 21, 12:0010.6N 146.1ETropical storm
Sep 21, 18:0011.0N 144.9ETropical storm
Sep 22, 00:0011.6N 144.2ETropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0012.3N 143.3ETropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0013.7N 140.8E20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Sep 22, 18:0015.3N 140.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 00:0016.6N 139.5E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 06:0017.1N 138.6E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 12:0017.3N 137.9E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0017.4N 137.2E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0017.7N 136.4E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0018.3N 135.3E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0018.4N 134.0E65 kt974 mbTyphoon
Sep 24, 18:0018.8N 132.7E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 00:0019.4N 131.6E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 06:0019.8N 130.4E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 12:0020.1N 129.4E90 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 25, 18:0020.5N 128.2E90 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 00:0020.9N 127.3E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 06:0021.4N 126.2E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 12:0021.9N 125.3E105 kt944 mbTyphoon
Sep 26, 18:0022.5N 124.2E110 kt941 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 00:0023.3N 123.1E115 kt937 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 06:0024.0N 121.8E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 12:0024.0N 120.7E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 27, 18:0024.8N 119.4E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0025.0N 117.9E55 kt981 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0025.0N 116.8E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0025.2N 116.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0025.7N 115.2E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 29, 00:0026.1N 116.2E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0026.7N 116.7E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0027.6N 117.1EDisturbance
Sep 29, 18:0028.8N 117.5EDisturbance

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.