TROPICAL CYCLONES IN 2016
Table 4.2 Tropical cyclone warnings for shipping issued in 2016 |
| Tropical Cyclone Name | No. of warnings |
Date and time of issue of | Duration (hours) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First warning | Last warning | |||||
| Date/Month | Time+ | Date/Month | Time+ | |||
| *Tropical Depression | 11 | 26/5 | 1200 | 27/5 | 1500 | 27 |
| Super Typhoon Nepartak | 26 | 6/7 | 2100 | 9/7 | 2100 | 72 |
| *Severe Tropical Storm Mirinae | 23 | 25/7 | 1500 | 28/7 | 0600 | 63 |
| *Typhoon Nida | 25 | 30/7 | 1200 | 2/8 | 0600 | 66 |
| *Tropical Storm Dianmu | 23 | 17/8 | 0300 | 19/8 | 1200 | 57 |
| Tropical Depression Rai | 11 | 12/9 | 0000 | 13/9 | 0000 | 24 |
| *Super Typhoon Meranti | 19 | 13/9 | 0300 | 15/9 | 0600 | 51 |
| Severe Typhoon Malakas | 22 | 16/9 | 0000 | 18/9 | 1200 | 60 |
| *Severe Typhoon Megi | 19 | 26/9 | 1500 | 28/9 | 1200 | 45 |
| *Tropical Storm Aere | 43 | 5/10 | 0900 | 10/10 | 1200 | 123 |
| 8 | 13/10 | 0300 | 14/10 | 0000 | 21 | |
| *Super Typhoon Sarika | 38 | 14/10 | 2100 | 19/10 | 0900 | 108 |
| *Super Typhoon Haima | 24 | 19/10 | 0600 | 21/10 | 1200 | 54 |
| Severe Tropical Storm Tokage | 31 | 24/11 | 1500 | 28/11 | 0900 | 90 |
| Tropical Depression | 6 | 12/12 | 0900 | 13/12 | 0000 | 15 |
| Super Typhoon Nock-ten | 23 | 25/12 | 0900 | 28/12 | 0000 | 63 |
| Total | 352 | 936 | ||||
| * Tropical cyclones for which tropical cyclone warning signals were issued in Hong Kong. + Times are given in UTC. |