NHC EP052016 · Eastern Pacific basin
Hurricane Darby (2016)
July 11, 2016 – July 26, 2016
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Darby peaked at Category 3 with 121 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 16 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Darby in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Darby from July 11, 2016 to July 26, 2016; its peak was 121 mph (Category 3). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 16 US cities, all in Hawaii. The strongest pass was 41 mph (tropical storm) 24 miles from Pahoa, HI; the centre came closest to Volcano, HI, 12 miles away.
- Peak strength
- Category 3
- Cities within 75 mi
- 16
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
121 mph
when closest
Cities Darby passed near, strongest first
Hawaii (16)
- PahoaTropical storm · 24 mi
- VolcanoTropical storm · 12 mi
- Mountain ViewTropical storm · 19 mi
- KurtistownTropical storm · 24 mi
- KeaauTropical storm · 29 mi
- HolualoaTropical storm · 30 mi
- HiloTropical storm · 31 mi
- Ocean ViewTropical storm · 33 mi
- Captain CookTropical storm · 38 mi
- KealakekuaTropical storm · 43 mi
- Kailua KonaTropical storm · 51 mi
- WaikoloaTropical storm · 55 mi
- HonokaaTropical storm · 56 mi
- KamuelaTropical storm · 57 mi
- KapaauTropical storm · 71 mi
- NaalehuTropical storm · 15 mi
Other storms of the 2016 season
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.