The 1980 season

Tropical Storm Herbert (1980)

Tropical Storm Herbert peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between June 19, 1980 and June 29, 1980, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Herbert, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1980 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
June 19, 1980 to June 29, 1980
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.6
Identifier
WP071980

Deaths and damage

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 19, 00:006.0N 141.8E10 ktMixed
Jun 19, 06:006.3N 141.0E10 ktMixed
Jun 19, 12:006.7N 140.0E10 ktMixed
Jun 19, 18:007.0N 139.3E15 ktMixed
Jun 20, 00:007.2N 138.5E15 ktMixed
Jun 20, 06:007.6N 137.9E15 ktMixed
Jun 20, 12:007.8N 137.1E15 ktMixed
Jun 20, 18:008.1N 136.2E15 ktMixed
Jun 21, 00:008.3N 135.2E15 ktMixed
Jun 21, 06:008.6N 134.1E15 ktMixed
Jun 21, 12:008.9N 133.0E15 ktMixed
Jun 21, 18:009.1N 131.9E20 ktMixed
Jun 22, 00:009.3N 130.9E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 06:009.6N 129.8E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 12:009.8N 128.6E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 22, 18:0010.2N 127.4E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 00:0010.5N 126.0E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0011.1N 124.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0011.6N 123.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0012.0N 122.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0012.3N 120.7E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0012.3N 119.2E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0012.9N 117.7E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0013.6N 116.4E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0014.3N 115.2E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0015.0N 114.0E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 12:0015.5N 112.8E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0016.0N 112.0E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 00:0016.7N 111.3E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 06:0017.3N 110.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 12:0018.0N 110.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0018.5N 110.0E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0019.0N 109.7E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0019.5N 109.7E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0020.2N 109.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0020.6N 109.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0021.1N 109.2E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0021.7N 108.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0021.9N 106.9E20 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0022.4N 105.6E15 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0022.9N 104.2E10 kt996 mbMixed
Jun 29, 06:0023.0N 102.0E996 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1980

What this means

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.

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.