The 2016 season

Hurricane Orlene (2016)

Hurricane Orlene reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between September 10, 2016 and September 17, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 967 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Orlene. 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 10, 2016 to September 17, 2016
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
967 mb (28.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 841 km (523 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.2
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
110 nmi (204 km, 127 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
115 kt (132 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP162016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 10, 12:0012.3N 113.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 10, 18:0013.0N 113.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 11, 00:0013.7N 114.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 06:0014.5N 115.4W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0015.3N 116.2W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0015.9N 117.2W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0016.4N 118.0W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0016.8N 118.7W65 kt994 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0017.2N 119.1W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0017.7N 119.2W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0018.4N 119.1W95 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0018.9N 118.9W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0019.2N 118.8W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0019.6N 118.7W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0019.8N 118.6W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0020.1N 118.6W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0020.1N 119.0W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0020.2N 119.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0020.3N 120.0W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0020.2N 120.7W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0020.0N 121.5W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0019.9N 122.3W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0019.9N 123.3W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0019.9N 124.4W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0019.9N 125.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0020.0N 126.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0020.1N 127.1W30 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 17, 06:0020.2N 128.0W30 kt1006 mbLow

Other Eastern 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.