The 1980 season
105 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.
Radar
Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.











Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Deaths and damage
1 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 101 people in all.
The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.
North Atlantic
18 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 9 hurricanes, 2 major; accumulated cyclone energy 146.7.
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane AllenNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane BonnieNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane CharleyNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane GeorgesNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Tropical Storm DanielleNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane FrancesNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Tropical Storm HermineNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane IvanNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane JeanneNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980
- Hurricane KarlNorth Atlantic · 1980
Eastern Pacific
15 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 8 hurricanes, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 89.0.
- Hurricane AgathaEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm BlasEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane CeliaEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm DarbyEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm FrankEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane HowardEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane IsisEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane JavierEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane KayEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm LesterEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm MadelineEastern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm NewtonEastern Pacific · 1980
- Hurricane DinahEastern Pacific · 1980
Western Pacific
31 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 14 typhoons, 8 major; accumulated cyclone energy 229.4.
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm CarmenWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon DomWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon EllenWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm ForrestWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm HerbertWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm IdaWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon JoeWestern Pacific · 1980
- Super Typhoon KimWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon LexWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon NorrisWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon OrchidWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon SperryWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon PercyWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon VernonWestern Pacific · 1980
- Super Typhoon WynneWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm AlexWestern Pacific · 1980
- Typhoon BettyWestern Pacific · 1980 · 101 deaths
- Tropical Storm CaryWestern Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm EdWestern Pacific · 1980
North Indian
5 storms, 3 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 1.6.
South Indian
25 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 11 at hurricane force, 8 major; accumulated cyclone energy 203.7.
- Tropical Depression TonySouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone AlbineSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone Claudette:ViolaSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Storm BereniceSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Storm Danitza:WilfSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Depression DanitzaSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone AmySouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Depression EglantineSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Depression FloreSouth Indian · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone HyacintheSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone BrianSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Storm ClaraSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Depression IvanneSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone DeanSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone JacintheSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone EnidSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone FredSouth Indian · 1980
- Tropical Storm KoliaSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone LaureSouth Indian · 1980
- Cyclone Doris:GloriaSouth Indian · 1980
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1980
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Indian · 1980
- Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Indian · 1980
South Pacific
11 storms, 11 at tropical storm strength, 3 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 43.0.
- Tropical Storm OfaSouth Pacific · 1980
- Cyclone PeniSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm PaulSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm RaeSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm RuthSouth Pacific · 1980
- Cyclone SimonSouth Pacific · 1980
- Cyclone SinaSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm TiaSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm ValSouth Pacific · 1980
- Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1980
- Tropical Storm WallySouth Pacific · 1980
Sources
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.