Hurricane Frances (1980)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

September 6, 1980 to September 21, 1980

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

958 mb (28.29 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 239 km (149 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

37.2

Fastest the center moved

35 kt (40 mph)

Identifier

AL121980

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 depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane AllenNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 5165 kt · 899 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane BonnieNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 285 kt · 975 mb
• Hurricane CharleyNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 170 kt · 989 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane GeorgesNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 170 kt · 993 mb
• Hurricane EarlNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 165 kt · 985 mb
• Tropical Storm DanielleNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Storm50 kt · 1004 mb
• Tropical Storm HermineNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Storm60 kt · 993 mb
• Hurricane IvanNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 290 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane JeanneNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 285 kt · 986 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1980Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane KarlNorth Atlantic · 1980Cat 175 kt · 985 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.