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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

1996 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 13 storms · 13 May 1996–11 Nov 1996

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY53.5
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1996 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 13 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESMEXICOCUBACHINAJAPANPHILIPPINESINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanPhilippine SeaArabian SeaBay of BengalUnnamed: 13 May–16 May, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 15 May–19 May, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionAlma: 20 Jun–27 Jun, peak 90 kt, Category 2Boris: 27 Jun–1 Jul, peak 80 kt, Category 1Cristina: 1 Jul–3 Jul, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 4 Jul–6 Jul, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionDouglas: 29 Jul–6 Aug, peak 115 kt, Category 4Elida: 30 Aug–6 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormFausto: 10 Sep–14 Sep, peak 105 kt, Category 3Unnamed: 16 Sep–20 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionGenevieve: 27 Sep–9 Oct, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormHernan: 30 Sep–4 Oct, peak 75 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 7 Nov–11 Nov, peak 30 kt, Tropical depression

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Unnamed–45Tropical storm1000780
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—400
Alma–90Cat 2969760
Boris–80Cat 1979860
Cristina–60Tropical storm991690
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—130
Douglas–115Cat 49462,410
Elida–55Tropical storm994950
Fausto–105Cat 39551,150
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—1,190
Genevieve–45Tropical storm9991,160
Hernan–75Cat 1980830
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—1,130

13 storms with an IBTrACS 1996 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 13 May 1996, last 11 Nov 1996.

Tropical storms9

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes5

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)2

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDouglas

115 kt · 132 mph / 213 km/h

Lowest pressure946 hPa

Douglas, 1 Aug 1996

Longest track record11.3 days

Genevieve, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1996 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1996 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 5 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 9 tropical storms, with 2 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season?

Douglas, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 115 kt (Category 4) on 1 Aug 1996, 00:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 946 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1996?

None. No storm in the 1996 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1996 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 13 May 1996 and the last on 11 Nov 1996, from 13 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1996 Pacific hurricane season?

Alma, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 22 Jun 1996, 00:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the Eastern Pacific basin for the 1996 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every Eastern Pacific season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology