Cyclone Victor (2016)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

January 14, 2016 to January 23, 2016

Peak strength

Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)

Lowest pressure

956 mb (28.23 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 628 km (390 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

14.1

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) from the center at its widest

Hurricane-force wind reached

50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi)

Overall size

275 nmi (509 km, 316 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

10 kt (12 mph)

Identifier

SH072016

The sources count different things and are not added together.

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

1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

1 storm surge/tide.

From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.

Hurricane Victor generated dangerous swells and surfs...and storm surges that have impacted the shores of American Samoa. The storm surge damaged homes and personal properties in low-lying areas near the shores. Also, the storm surge triggered coastal erosion mainly along the east and south facing shorelines of Tutuila. The power-line, rock-walls, family yards and a private boat ramp were damaged in the Nuuuli/Coconut-Point beach area. There was no injury or fatality reported.

Tutuila, American Samoa · Storm Surge/Tide · Jan 15, 11:00 UTC

• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Storm TuniSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Depression30 kt · 994 mb
• Cyclone UlaSouth Pacific · 2016Cat 4120 kt · 933 mb
• Tropical Storm TatianaSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Cyclone WinstonSouth Pacific · 2016Cat 5155 kt · 907 mb
• Tropical Storm YaloSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm55 kt · 982 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 2016Tropical Storm40 kt · 993 mb
• Cyclone ZenaSouth Pacific · 2016Cat 290 kt · 956 mb
• Cyclone AmosSouth Pacific · 2016Cat 290 kt · 956 mb

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.

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.