Hurricane Greg (1981)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 13, 1981 to August 22, 1981

Peak strength

Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 728 km (452 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

6.0

Fastest the center moved

15 kt (17 mph)

Identifier

EP071981

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.

• Tropical Storm AdrianEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm40 kt
• Hurricane BeatrizEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm CalvinEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane DoraEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 180 kt
• Tropical Storm EugeneEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane FernandaEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 290 kt
• Hurricane HilaryEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm IrwinEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane JovaEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm KnutEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm55 kt
• Tropical Storm LidiaEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm MaxEastern Pacific · 1981Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane NormaEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 3110 kt
• Hurricane OtisEastern Pacific · 1981Cat 175 kt

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.