The 1982 season

Tropical Storm Aletta (1982)

Tropical Storm Aletta peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between May 20, 1982 and May 29, 1982.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Aletta, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1982 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
May 20, 1982 to May 29, 1982
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 233 km (145 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.3
Fastest the center moved
5 kt (6 mph)
Identifier
EP011982

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
May 20, 00:0011.0N 104.8W25 ktTropical depression
May 20, 06:0011.2N 105.2W25 ktTropical depression
May 20, 12:0011.4N 105.6W25 ktTropical depression
May 20, 18:0011.6N 105.8W25 ktTropical depression
May 21, 00:0012.0N 106.0W30 ktTropical depression
May 21, 06:0012.3N 105.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 21, 12:0012.5N 105.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 21, 18:0012.8N 105.2W35 ktTropical storm
May 22, 00:0012.9N 104.8W40 ktTropical storm
May 22, 06:0013.2N 104.5W45 ktTropical storm
May 22, 12:0013.4N 104.2W50 ktTropical storm
May 22, 18:0013.7N 104.0W50 ktTropical storm
May 23, 00:0014.1N 103.8W55 ktTropical storm
May 23, 06:0014.4N 103.6W50 ktTropical storm
May 23, 12:0014.5N 103.3W50 ktTropical storm
May 23, 18:0014.6N 102.9W45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 00:0014.7N 102.5W45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 06:0014.8N 102.2W45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 12:0014.8N 101.9W45 ktTropical storm
May 24, 18:0014.8N 101.7W45 ktTropical storm
May 25, 00:0014.8N 101.5W45 ktTropical storm
May 25, 06:0014.7N 101.4W45 ktTropical storm
May 25, 12:0014.5N 101.4W40 ktTropical storm
May 25, 18:0014.4N 101.4W40 ktTropical storm
May 26, 00:0014.2N 101.4W35 ktTropical storm
May 26, 06:0014.1N 101.6W35 ktTropical storm
May 26, 12:0014.0N 101.9W35 ktTropical storm
May 26, 18:0013.9N 102.2W35 ktTropical storm
May 27, 00:0013.9N 102.5W35 ktTropical storm
May 27, 06:0014.0N 102.9W35 ktTropical storm
May 27, 12:0014.2N 103.1W30 ktTropical depression
May 27, 18:0014.5N 103.5W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 00:0014.7N 103.7W30 ktTropical depression
May 28, 06:0015.0N 103.8W25 ktTropical depression
May 28, 12:0015.2N 103.7W25 ktTropical depression
May 28, 18:0015.3N 103.4W25 ktTropical depression
May 29, 00:0015.4N 103.1W25 ktTropical depression
May 29, 06:0015.5N 102.8W25 ktTropical depression
May 29, 12:0015.7N 102.5W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1982

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.

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