Hurricane Fabio (1982)

Hurricane Fabio reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 17, 1982 and July 25, 1982.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Fabio, 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 17, 1982 to July 25, 1982
Peak strength: Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Landfall: No; closest approach 483 km (300 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 5.9
Identifier: EP061982

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)	Position	Wind	Status
Jul 17, 12:00	11.2N 103.2W	25 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 17, 18:00	11.4N 103.5W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 18, 00:00	11.6N 103.8W	35 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 18, 06:00	11.8N 104.1W	40 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 18, 12:00	12.2N 104.4W	45 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 18, 18:00	12.8N 104.8W	55 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 19, 00:00	13.4N 105.4W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 19, 06:00	14.0N 105.9W	65 kt	Hurricane
Jul 19, 12:00	14.7N 106.6W	65 kt	Hurricane
Jul 19, 18:00	15.4N 107.4W	70 kt	Hurricane
Jul 20, 00:00	16.3N 108.3W	70 kt	Hurricane
Jul 20, 06:00	17.2N 109.2W	70 kt	Hurricane
Jul 20, 12:00	17.8N 110.4W	65 kt	Hurricane
Jul 20, 18:00	18.2N 111.7W	65 kt	Hurricane
Jul 21, 00:00	18.5N 113.1W	60 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 21, 06:00	18.8N 114.2W	55 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 21, 12:00	19.0N 115.2W	50 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 21, 18:00	19.2N 116.2W	45 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 22, 00:00	19.3N 117.3W	40 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 22, 06:00	19.3N 118.1W	40 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 22, 12:00	19.4N 119.1W	35 kt	Tropical storm
Jul 22, 18:00	19.5N 120.1W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 23, 00:00	19.5N 121.0W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 23, 06:00	19.5N 121.9W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 23, 12:00	19.6N 122.8W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 23, 18:00	19.7N 123.8W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 24, 00:00	19.8N 124.9W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 24, 06:00	19.8N 126.0W	30 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 24, 12:00	19.7N 127.1W	25 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 24, 18:00	19.5N 128.2W	25 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 25, 00:00	19.3N 129.4W	25 kt	Tropical depression
Jul 25, 06:00	19.2N 130.6W	25 kt	Tropical 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.