The 1982 season

Tropical Storm Hope (1982)

Tropical Storm Hope peaked at 60 kt in the Western Pacific between September 3, 1982 and September 7, 1982, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Hope. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 3, 1982 to September 7, 1982
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 60 kt (69 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Identifier
WP171982

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
Sep 3, 00:0015.6N 119.0EDisturbance
Sep 3, 06:0015.7N 118.9EDisturbance
Sep 3, 12:0015.8N 118.8EDisturbance
Sep 3, 18:0016.0N 118.7EDisturbance
Sep 4, 00:0016.2N 118.5E25 ktTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0016.5N 118.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0016.6N 117.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0016.6N 116.9E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0016.6N 116.0E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0016.5N 114.8E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0016.5N 113.6E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0016.4N 112.4E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0016.2N 111.2E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0015.9N 110.1E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0015.7N 109.0E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0015.6N 107.8E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0015.5N 106.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 06:0016.3N 104.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 12:0016.5N 104.0E998 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 18:0017.0N 103.0E998 mbTropical storm

Other Western 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.