The 2016 season

Unnamed tropical storm (2016)

Unnamed tropical storm peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between August 22, 2016 and August 24, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Unnamed tropical storm. 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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 22, 2016 to August 24, 2016
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1403 km (872 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.3
Identifier
WP142016

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Aug 23, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 22, 18:0012.6N 146.1E20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 23, 00:0012.2N 145.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 06:0013.7N 145.4E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0015.7N 145.1E40 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0017.4N 145.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 00:0019.4N 146.1E25 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 06:0022.2N 147.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0024.5N 148.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical wave

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.