The 1982 season

Hurricane Daniel (1982)

Hurricane Daniel reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 7, 1982 and July 22, 1982, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Daniel, 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
July 7, 1982 to July 22, 1982
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
20.0
Identifier
EP041982

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 7, 00:009.2N 98.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 06:009.5N 98.8W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 12:009.8N 99.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 18:0010.1N 100.8W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 00:0010.3N 101.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0010.5N 102.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0010.7N 103.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0010.9N 104.5W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0011.1N 105.8W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0011.4N 107.0W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0012.0N 108.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0012.8N 109.3W65 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 00:0013.3N 110.4W70 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 06:0013.5N 111.4W75 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 12:0013.6N 112.5W85 ktHurricane
Jul 10, 18:0013.8N 113.3W90 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 00:0013.9N 113.8W95 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 06:0014.3N 114.3W100 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 12:0014.7N 114.9W100 ktHurricane
Jul 11, 18:0015.1N 115.8W100 ktHurricane
Jul 12, 00:0015.5N 116.8W100 ktHurricane
Jul 12, 06:0015.7N 117.8W90 ktHurricane
Jul 12, 12:0016.0N 118.9W90 ktHurricane
Jul 12, 18:0016.4N 120.2W90 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 00:0016.8N 121.6W90 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 06:0017.0N 122.8W85 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 12:0017.2N 124.2W80 ktHurricane
Jul 13, 18:0017.3N 125.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0017.4N 126.7W70 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0017.5N 128.0W65 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 12:0017.8N 129.4W65 ktHurricane
Jul 14, 18:0018.0N 130.7W65 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 00:0018.2N 132.0W65 ktHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0018.2N 133.4W60 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0018.1N 134.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0018.1N 136.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0018.1N 137.4W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0018.1N 138.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0018.1N 140.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0017.8N 141.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0017.5N 143.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0017.3N 145.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0017.2N 146.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0017.0N 147.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0016.7N 149.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0016.5N 150.4W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0016.0N 152.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0015.6N 153.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0015.2N 154.2W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0014.8N 155.4W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0014.5N 156.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0014.6N 157.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 00:0014.7N 157.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 06:0014.7N 157.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 12:0014.7N 157.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0015.0N 157.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0015.3N 157.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0015.8N 157.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0016.2N 157.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0016.7N 157.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0017.6N 156.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0018.3N 156.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0019.3N 156.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 22, 18:0020.4N 156.0W25 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.