The 2016 season

Typhoon Namtheun (2016)

Typhoon Namtheun reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between August 30, 2016 and September 5, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Namtheun, 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 30, 2016 to September 5, 2016
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
22 nmi (41 km, 25 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP152016

Radar at RODN as it neared land, Sep 1, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 30, 18:0020.8N 123.0E15 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Aug 31, 00:0021.2N 124.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0021.5N 124.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0022.4N 126.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0023.2N 127.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0023.8N 128.1E45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0024.4N 129.1E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0025.0N 130.2E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Sep 1, 18:0025.8N 130.6E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 00:0026.4N 130.8E85 kt959 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 06:0027.2N 130.8E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 12:0027.8N 130.8E100 kt948 mbTyphoon
Sep 2, 18:0028.5N 130.6E95 kt952 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 00:0029.3N 130.3E90 kt956 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 06:0029.9N 130.1E80 kt963 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 12:0030.5N 130.0E70 kt970 mbTyphoon
Sep 3, 18:0031.0N 129.8E60 kt978 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0031.4N 129.6E55 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0032.0N 129.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0032.5N 129.8E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0033.2N 129.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 00:0034.1N 130.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0035.4N 131.4E20 kt1008 mbDisturbance
Sep 5, 12:0035.9N 132.3E1008 mbTropical 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.

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.