The 1982 season

Hurricane Norman (1982)

Hurricane Norman reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between September 9, 1982 and September 18, 1982.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Norman. 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 9, 1982 to September 18, 1982
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 349 km (217 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.6
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP141982

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 9, 18:0010.2N 109.9W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 10, 00:0010.4N 110.8W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0010.8N 112.0W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 10, 12:0011.1N 113.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 10, 18:0011.5N 113.7W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 11, 00:0011.9N 114.4W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0012.3N 115.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0012.6N 115.5W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0012.9N 115.9W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0013.2N 116.6W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0013.5N 117.2W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0013.8N 117.7W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0014.2N 118.4W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0014.5N 119.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0014.8N 119.6W70 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0015.1N 120.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0015.5N 120.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0016.0N 121.3W90 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0016.5N 121.6W90 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0016.9N 121.9W90 ktHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0017.4N 122.2W90 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0017.8N 122.3W85 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0018.3N 122.2W85 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0018.7N 122.1W80 ktHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0019.2N 121.8W75 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0019.5N 121.7W70 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0020.2N 121.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0020.8N 121.3W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0021.4N 121.2W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0021.9N 121.0W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0022.5N 120.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0023.2N 120.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 17, 18:0023.9N 119.8W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0024.7N 119.3W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 06:0025.2N 118.5W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0025.8N 117.8W25 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.