Hurricane Paine (2016)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

September 18, 2016 to September 21, 2016

Peak strength

Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)

Lowest pressure

979 mb (28.91 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 65 km (40 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

3.6

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)

Overall size

250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

100 kt (115 mph)

Fastest the center moved

14 kt (16 mph)

Identifier

EP172016

The sources count different things and are not added together.

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

$10,000

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 lightning.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

A band of convection formed along the leading edge of moisture from former Hurricane Paine as it moved northward. Numerous lightning strikes occurred in San Diego County setting palm trees on fire and causing power outages to 4000 customers.

San Diego, California · Lightning · Sep 19, 13:00 UTC

• Hurricane PaliEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 285 kt · 978 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm AgathaEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane BlasEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4120 kt · 947 mb
• Hurricane CeliaEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 285 kt · 972 mb
• Hurricane DarbyEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 3105 kt · 958 mb
• Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Hurricane GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4115 kt · 952 mb
• Hurricane FrankEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 175 kt · 979 mb
• Tropical Storm HowardEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm50 kt · 998 mb
• Tropical Storm IvetteEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb
• Tropical Storm JavierEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm55 kt · 997 mb
• Tropical Storm KayEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane LesterEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4125 kt · 944 mb
• Hurricane MadelineEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4115 kt · 950 mb
• Hurricane NewtonEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 180 kt · 977 mb
• Hurricane OrleneEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 295 kt · 967 mb
• Hurricane UlikaEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 165 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm RoslynEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm45 kt · 999 mb
• Hurricane SongdaEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4130 kt · 926 mb
• Hurricane SeymourEastern Pacific · 2016Cat 4130 kt · 940 mb
• Tropical Storm TinaEastern Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm35 kt · 1004 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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Best track as a shapefile, National Hurricane Center