Cyclone Vardah (2016)
Cyclone Vardah reached Category 2 in the North Indian between December 6, 2016 and December 19, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 959 mb, and made landfall. It killed 38 people and did $2.1 billion of damage, as Wikidata records it.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Cyclone Vardah, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- North Indian
- Dates
- December 6, 2016 to December 19, 2016
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 959 mb (28.32 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 8.4
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
- Overall size
- 230 nmi (426 km, 265 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 21 kt (24 mph)
- Identifier
- IO052016
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
Wikidata
38 deaths$2.1 billion
A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 06:00 | 7.8N 91.7E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 6, 12:00 | 8.3N 91.4E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 6, 18:00 | 8.7N 91.5E | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 7, 00:00 | 9.4N 91.5E | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 7, 06:00 | 10.0N 91.8E | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 7, 12:00 | 10.5N 92.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 7, 18:00 | 10.8N 92.0E | 40 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 8, 00:00 | 11.0N 92.0E | 45 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 8, 06:00 | 11.2N 92.0E | 45 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 8, 12:00 | 11.2N 91.8E | 45 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 8, 18:00 | 11.3N 91.5E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 9, 00:00 | 11.5N 91.0E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 9, 06:00 | 11.8N 90.6E | 45 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 9, 12:00 | 12.1N 90.0E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 9, 18:00 | 12.4N 89.1E | 55 kt | 982 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 10, 00:00 | 12.6N 88.1E | 55 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 10, 06:00 | 12.8N 87.1E | 60 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 10, 12:00 | 12.8N 86.3E | 65 kt | 985 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 10, 18:00 | 12.8N 85.4E | 70 kt | 970 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 11, 00:00 | 12.8N 84.9E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 11, 06:00 | 13.0N 83.9E | 75 kt | 980 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 11, 12:00 | 13.1N 83.3E | 75 kt | 979 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 11, 18:00 | 13.1N 82.4E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 12, 00:00 | 13.2N 81.8E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 12, 06:00 | 13.2N 80.9E | 80 kt | 963 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 12, 12:00 | 13.2N 79.8E | 65 kt | 974 mb | Typhoon |
| Dec 12, 18:00 | 13.2N 78.8E | 50 kt | 985 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 13, 00:00 | 13.1N 77.8E | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 13, 06:00 | 13.0N 77.0E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 13, 12:00 | 13.1N 76.0E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 13, 18:00 | 13.2N 75.1E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 14, 00:00 | 13.2N 74.0E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 14, 06:00 | 13.1N 73.2E | 20 kt | 1007 mb | Disturbance |
| Dec 14, 12:00 | 12.9N 72.6E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 14, 18:00 | 12.6N 71.8E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 15, 00:00 | 12.2N 71.0E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 15, 06:00 | 11.8N 70.2E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 15, 12:00 | 11.4N 69.5E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 15, 18:00 | 11.1N 68.5E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 16, 00:00 | 11.2N 67.5E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 16, 06:00 | 11.2N 66.4E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 16, 12:00 | 11.2N 65.4E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 16, 18:00 | 11.1N 64.2E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 17, 00:00 | 10.8N 62.3E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 17, 06:00 | 10.6N 61.0E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 17, 12:00 | 10.4N 59.8E | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Dec 17, 18:00 | 9.8N 58.4E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 00:00 | 9.4N 56.8E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 06:00 | 9.3N 55.4E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 12:00 | 9.3N 53.7E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 18, 18:00 | 9.2N 52.1E | 35 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Dec 19, 00:00 | 8.9N 51.0E | 25 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
Other North Indian 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.