Tropical Storm Alex (1980)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

October 8, 1980 to October 14, 1980

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)

Lowest pressure

998 mb (29.47 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 340 km (211 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.1

Identifier

WP241980

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm CarmenWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm60 kt · 985 mb
• Typhoon DomWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 290 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon EllenWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 3110 kt · 930 mb
• Tropical Storm ForrestWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm55 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm GeorgiaWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm55 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm HerbertWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm IdaWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm60 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Typhoon JoeWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 3105 kt · 940 mb
• Super Typhoon KimWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 4130 kt · 910 mb
• Typhoon LexWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 180 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon MargeWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 3110 kt · 945 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression20 kt
• Typhoon NorrisWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 290 kt · 945 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression
• Typhoon OrchidWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 285 kt · 960 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression
• Typhoon RuthWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 165 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon SperryWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 165 kt · 975 mb
• Typhoon PercyWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 4125 kt · 915 mb
• Tropical Storm ThelmaWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm55 kt · 960 mb
• Typhoon VernonWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 3105 kt · 935 mb
• Super Typhoon WynneWestern Pacific · 1980Cat 5150 kt · 890 mb
• Typhoon BettyWestern Pacific · 1980 · 101 deathsCat 4125 kt · 925 mb
• Tropical Storm CaryWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm35 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm EdWestern Pacific · 1980Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

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.