The 1980 season

Tropical Storm Ida (1980)

Tropical Storm Ida peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between July 5, 1980 and July 15, 1980, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Ida. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
July 5, 1980 to July 15, 1980
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Identifier
WP081980

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
Jul 5, 00:008.7N 145.5EDisturbance
Jul 5, 06:009.2N 144.8EDisturbance
Jul 5, 12:0010.2N 143.3E1004 mbMixed
Jul 5, 18:0011.1N 141.9E1002 mbMixed
Jul 6, 00:0011.7N 140.9E1002 mbMixed
Jul 6, 06:0012.5N 139.9E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 12:0013.2N 138.8E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 6, 18:0013.9N 137.6E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 00:0014.7N 136.5E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 06:0015.8N 135.3E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 12:0016.7N 133.6E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 7, 18:0017.2N 131.8E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0017.8N 130.1E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0018.3N 128.6E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0018.6N 127.1E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0018.9N 125.8E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0019.3N 124.4E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0019.8N 123.2E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0020.3N 122.2E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0020.7N 121.4E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0021.1N 120.5E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0021.5N 119.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0022.0N 118.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0022.4N 118.2E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0022.6N 117.7E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0022.8N 117.1E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0023.2N 116.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0023.8N 116.2E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0024.6N 115.4E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0025.8N 115.5E996 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0027.1N 116.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 12, 18:0028.3N 117.3E998 mbMixed
Jul 13, 00:0029.2N 118.9E999 mbMixed
Jul 13, 06:0030.8N 120.5E996 mbMixed
Jul 13, 12:0033.0N 122.3E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 13, 18:0035.0N 124.6E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 14, 00:0035.9N 127.4E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 14, 06:0036.7N 130.0E996 mbExtratropical
Jul 14, 12:0037.5N 133.3E998 mbExtratropical
Jul 14, 18:0038.3N 134.9E1000 mbExtratropical
Jul 15, 00:0038.5N 136.5E1002 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.