Super Typhoon Meranti (2016)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

September 8, 2016 to September 17, 2016

Peak strength

Category 5, 170 kt (196 mph)

Lowest pressure

895 mb (26.43 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

28.9

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

64 nmi (119 km, 74 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

12 nmi (22 km, 14 mi)

Overall size

230 nmi (426 km, 265 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

WP162016

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Sep 8, 18:00 UTC

The sources count different things and are not added together.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression30 kt · 1000 mb
• Super Typhoon NepartakWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 5155 kt · 907 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression25 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm LupitWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm45 kt · 989 mb
• Typhoon MirinaeWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 165 kt · 974 mb
• Typhoon NidaWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 180 kt · 963 mb
• Typhoon OmaisWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 165 kt · 974 mb
• Tropical Storm ConsonWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm ChanthuWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm60 kt · 978 mb
• Tropical Storm DianmuWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm45 kt · 989 mb
• Typhoon MindulleWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 165 kt · 974 mb
• Typhoon LionrockWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 4120 kt · 933 mb
• Tropical Storm KompasuWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Typhoon NamtheunWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 3100 kt · 948 mb
• Tropical Storm MalouWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm40 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Depression RaiWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression30 kt · 1000 mb
• Typhoon MalakasWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 4115 kt · 937 mb
• Typhoon MegiWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 4120 kt · 933 mb
• Super Typhoon ChabaWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 5150 kt · 911 mb
• Tropical Storm AereWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm55 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon SarikaWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 4115 kt · 944 mb
• Super Typhoon HaimaWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 5145 kt · 914 mb
• Typhoon MeariWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 290 kt · 962 mb
• Tropical Storm Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression25 kt · 1004 mb
• Typhoon TokageWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 180 kt · 963 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression
• Super Typhoon Nock-TenWestern Pacific · 2016Cat 5140 kt · 915 mb

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Typhoon Meranti