The 1982 season

Typhoon Pat (1982)

Typhoon Pat reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between May 16, 1982 and May 24, 1982, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Pat. 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
May 16, 1982 to May 24, 1982
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 140 km (87 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.6
Identifier
WP041982

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 16, 00:008.2N 140.2E1008 mbMixed
May 16, 06:008.9N 138.8E1006 mbMixed
May 16, 12:009.7N 137.5E1006 mbMixed
May 16, 18:0010.2N 135.9E25 kt1006 mbMixed
May 17, 00:0010.9N 134.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 17, 06:0011.5N 133.2E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 17, 12:0011.6N 131.6E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
May 17, 18:0011.3N 130.0E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
May 18, 00:0011.2N 128.6E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 18, 06:0011.5N 127.7E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
May 18, 12:0012.4N 127.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
May 18, 18:0013.8N 126.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
May 19, 00:0014.6N 125.7E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
May 19, 06:0015.4N 125.0E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
May 19, 12:0016.2N 124.4E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
May 19, 18:0017.2N 124.2E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
May 20, 00:0017.9N 124.2E95 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 20, 06:0018.6N 124.6E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 20, 12:0019.3N 125.2E105 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 20, 18:0019.8N 126.0E105 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 21, 00:0020.2N 127.0E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 21, 06:0020.9N 127.9E90 kt945 mbTropical storm
May 21, 12:0021.8N 129.3E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
May 21, 18:0022.3N 131.0E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
May 22, 00:0023.5N 133.1E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
May 22, 06:0024.5N 135.5E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
May 22, 12:0025.4N 137.8E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
May 22, 18:0026.5N 140.2E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
May 23, 00:0027.9N 143.4E40 kt992 mbMixed
May 23, 06:0029.5N 146.6E996 mbMixed
May 23, 12:0030.8N 149.9E1002 mbExtratropical
May 23, 18:0031.8N 152.9E1006 mbExtratropical
May 24, 00:0033.0N 156.0E1012 mbExtratropical
May 24, 06:0034.0N 159.5E1012 mbExtratropical

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.