The 2016 season

Tropical Depression Rai (2016)

Tropical Depression Rai peaked at 30 kt in the Western Pacific between September 11, 2016 and September 14, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 11, 2016 to September 14, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Eyewall radius at its peak
45 nmi (83 km, 52 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
WP192016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 11, 06:0012.3N 114.3E1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0012.6N 114.3E20 kt1003 mbDisturbance
Sep 11, 18:0013.0N 113.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 00:0013.7N 112.2E30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 06:0014.4N 110.9E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 12:0014.9N 109.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0015.6N 108.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0015.9N 107.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0016.0N 106.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0016.2N 104.4E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Sep 13, 18:0016.3N 103.6E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0016.7N 102.8EDisturbance
Sep 14, 06:0017.2N 101.9EDisturbance

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.