The 1981 season

Tropical Storm Maury (1981)

Tropical Storm Maury peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between July 14, 1981 and July 25, 1981, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Maury, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1981 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
July 14, 1981 to July 25, 1981
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.8
Identifier
WP081981

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 14, 00:0011.2N 137.6EDisturbance
Jul 14, 06:0011.6N 137.1EDisturbance
Jul 14, 12:0012.1N 136.7EDisturbance
Jul 14, 18:0012.6N 136.5EDisturbance
Jul 15, 00:0013.2N 136.4EDisturbance
Jul 15, 06:0013.7N 136.1EDisturbance
Jul 15, 12:0014.1N 135.7EDisturbance
Jul 15, 18:0014.5N 135.5EDisturbance
Jul 16, 00:0015.1N 135.2EDisturbance
Jul 16, 06:0016.0N 134.5EDisturbance
Jul 16, 12:0017.1N 133.5EDisturbance
Jul 16, 18:0018.1N 132.2EDisturbance
Jul 17, 00:0018.9N 130.9E20 ktDisturbance
Jul 17, 06:0019.3N 129.9E20 kt1002 mbMixed
Jul 17, 12:0019.4N 129.1E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0019.7N 128.4E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0020.2N 127.7E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0021.3N 126.6E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0022.8N 126.1E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0024.3N 125.9E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0025.1N 124.3E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0025.0N 123.0E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0025.2N 121.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0025.4N 120.2E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 00:0025.7N 118.9E30 kt992 mbMixed
Jul 20, 06:0025.7N 117.8E994 mbMixed
Jul 20, 12:0025.5N 116.3E998 mbMixed
Jul 20, 18:0025.1N 115.1E998 mbMixed
Jul 21, 00:0024.8N 114.2E998 mbMixed
Jul 21, 06:0024.1N 113.6E998 mbMixed
Jul 21, 12:0023.7N 112.8E998 mbMixed
Jul 21, 18:0023.3N 111.9E998 mbMixed
Jul 22, 00:0022.9N 111.3E1000 mbMixed
Jul 22, 06:0022.7N 110.7E998 mbMixed
Jul 22, 12:0022.7N 110.0E998 mbMixed
Jul 22, 18:0022.1N 109.3E998 mbMixed
Jul 23, 00:0021.9N 109.2E998 mbMixed
Jul 23, 06:0021.7N 108.7E996 mbMixed
Jul 23, 12:0022.2N 108.7E996 mbMixed
Jul 23, 18:0022.7N 109.1E998 mbMixed
Jul 24, 00:0023.3N 110.1EDisturbance
Jul 24, 06:0024.2N 110.3EDisturbance
Jul 24, 12:0025.4N 111.2EDisturbance
Jul 24, 18:0026.0N 112.5EDisturbance
Jul 25, 00:0027.3N 112.0EDisturbance

Other Western Pacific storms of 1981

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.