The 2016 season

Hurricane Seymour (2016)

Hurricane Seymour reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between October 22, 2016 and October 30, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Seymour, 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
October 22, 2016 to October 30, 2016
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 506 km (314 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
80 nmi (148 km, 92 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
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
160 kt (184 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP202016

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded

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
none recorded
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
6 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
California006

What was recorded

6 heavy rain.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 22, 06:0011.4N 98.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 22, 12:0011.7N 99.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 22, 18:0012.0N 100.6W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 23, 00:0012.3N 101.7W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 23, 06:0012.7N 102.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 12:0013.2N 104.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0013.7N 105.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0014.2N 106.5W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0014.6N 107.8W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0014.9N 109.1W70 kt989 mbHurricane
Oct 24, 18:0015.2N 110.5W80 kt984 mbHurricane
Oct 25, 00:0015.3N 111.9W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 25, 06:0015.4N 113.2W95 kt974 mbHurricane
Oct 25, 12:0015.5N 114.5W105 kt964 mbHurricane
Oct 25, 18:0015.6N 115.8W115 kt956 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 00:0015.9N 117.1W130 kt942 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 06:0016.2N 118.4W130 kt940 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 12:0016.6N 119.7W125 kt945 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 18:0017.1N 120.7W110 kt957 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 00:0018.0N 121.4W95 kt969 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 06:0019.0N 122.0W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 12:0019.8N 122.6W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 18:0020.9N 123.0W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0021.6N 123.1W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0022.1N 122.9W35 kt1004 mbLow
Oct 28, 12:0022.5N 122.5W30 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 28, 18:0022.8N 122.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Oct 29, 00:0023.0N 121.7W20 kt1008 mbLow
Oct 29, 06:0023.4N 121.5W20 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 29, 12:0023.8N 121.5W15 kt1010 mbLow
Oct 29, 18:0024.2N 121.4W15 kt1011 mbLow
Oct 30, 00:0024.6N 121.3W15 kt1012 mbLow
Oct 30, 06:0025.0N 121.2W15 kt1012 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.