Super Typhoon Nock-Ten (2016)
Super Typhoon Nock-Ten reached Category 5 in the Western Pacific between December 20, 2016 and December 28, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 915 mb, and made landfall.
Radar
Reflectivity now over Super Typhoon Nock-Ten. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.
Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
The storm
- Basin
- Western Pacific
- Dates
- December 20, 2016 to December 28, 2016
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 915 mb (27.02 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 18.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 46 nmi (85 km, 53 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
- Overall size
- 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 18 kt (21 mph)
- Identifier
- WP302016
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$150,000
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guam | 0 | 0 | $150,000 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 tropical storm.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 00:00 | 6.9N 145.5E | Tropical storm | ||
| Dec 20, 06:00 | 5.7N 145.1E | 15 kt | 1010 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 20, 12:00 | 6.0N 144.4E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 20, 18:00 | 6.2N 143.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 21, 00:00 | 6.2N 142.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 21, 06:00 | 6.6N 141.7E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 21, 12:00 | 7.1N 141.1E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 21, 18:00 | 8.0N 140.2E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 22, 00:00 | 8.8N 139.1E | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 22, 06:00 | 9.4N 137.9E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 22, 12:00 | 10.3N 136.4E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 22, 18:00 | 11.1N 134.7E | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 23, 00:00 | 11.8N 133.2E | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 23, 06:00 | 12.2N 132.2E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 23, 12:00 | 12.7N 131.0E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 23, 18:00 | 13.0N 129.9E | 90 kt | 954 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 24, 00:00 | 13.1N 128.9E | 110 kt | 935 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 24, 06:00 | 13.3N 128.2E | 120 kt | 933 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 24, 12:00 | 13.4N 127.5E | 125 kt | 929 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 24, 18:00 | 13.6N 126.7E | 135 kt | 922 mb | Super typhoon |
| Dec 25, 00:00 | 13.5N 125.9E | 140 kt | 918 mb | Super typhoon |
| Dec 25, 06:00 | 13.5N 125.0E | 135 kt | 922 mb | Super typhoon |
| Dec 25, 12:00 | 13.5N 124.0E | 120 kt | 933 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 25, 18:00 | 13.3N 122.7E | 100 kt | 915 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 26, 00:00 | 13.3N 121.3E | 85 kt | 959 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 26, 06:00 | 14.0N 119.9E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 26, 12:00 | 14.4N 118.9E | 70 kt | 985 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 26, 18:00 | 14.8N 117.3E | 65 kt | 988 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 27, 00:00 | 14.9N 116.6E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 27, 06:00 | 14.7N 116.1E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 27, 12:00 | 14.2N 115.5E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 27, 18:00 | 13.6N 114.6E | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 28, 00:00 | 12.9N 113.3E | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 28, 06:00 | 11.9N 112.3E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 28, 12:00 | 11.2N 111.4E | 1008 mb | Tropical storm |
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- Typhoon MirinaeWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon NidaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon OmaisWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm ConsonWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm ChanthuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm DianmuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MindulleWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon LionrockWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm KompasuWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon NamtheunWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm MalouWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon MerantiWestern Pacific · 2016 · 30 deaths
- Unnamed tropical stormWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Depression RaiWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MalakasWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MegiWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon ChabaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm AereWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon SarikaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Super Typhoon HaimaWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon MeariWestern Pacific · 2016
- Tropical Storm Ma-OnWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 2016
- Typhoon TokageWestern Pacific · 2016
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 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.