The 2016 season

Tropical Storm Roslyn (2016)

Tropical Storm Roslyn peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 25, 2016 and September 30, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Roslyn, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 25, 2016 to September 30, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 364 km (226 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
130 nmi (241 km, 150 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)
Overall size
225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
55 kt (63 mph)
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP182016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 25, 12:0015.3N 119.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0015.8N 119.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 26, 00:0016.2N 119.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0016.5N 119.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0016.7N 119.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0016.8N 119.0W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0017.0N 118.6W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0017.5N 118.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0018.0N 117.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0018.5N 116.8W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0019.2N 116.1W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0020.0N 115.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0020.7N 115.2W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0021.3N 115.1W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0021.8N 115.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 06:0022.5N 115.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 12:0023.2N 115.4W25 kt1010 mbLow
Sep 29, 18:0023.8N 115.7W20 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 30, 00:0024.2N 116.0W15 kt1012 mbLow
Sep 30, 06:0024.4N 116.5W15 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 30, 12:0024.3N 116.9W15 kt1014 mbLow
Sep 30, 18:0024.0N 117.2W15 kt1014 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.