Typhoon Nepartak (2016)

Tracking northwestward from early July, Nepartak became a typhoon on 5 July and reached its peak with a pinhole eye the following day. It came ashore on the southeast coast of Taiwan in Taitung County at about 05:50 local time on 8 July, by which point interaction with the Central Mountain Range and cooler water had cut the 10-minute sustained wind to 167 km/h and raised the central pressure to 940 mb. One area of eastern Taiwan recorded more than 550 mm of rain. Final landfall came in Fujian province on 9 July as a weakening tropical storm, where flooding caused ¥9.99 billion (US$1.49 billion) in damage.

Formed (UTC)

2016-07-02

Dissipated (UTC)

2016-07-10

Peak Saffir-Simpson category

5

Peak wind (knots, 1-minute)

155

Basin it formed in

Western North Pacific

Deaths, as sources state them

Early reports gave 3 in Taiwan and at least 10 in mainland China; later accounts give 86 confirmed fatalities across Taiwan and East China and 111 deaths in Fujian. Estimates differ.

IBTrACS storm page

ncics.org/ibtracs/index.php?name=v04r01-2016185N08145

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: typhoon, taiwan, fujian, flooding, landfall

Coordinates: 18.138077800597, 131.485766598209

Part of Western Pacific typhoons of category 4 and above in the 2016 season

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