The 1982 season

Typhoon Roger (1982)

Typhoon Roger reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between December 5, 1982 and December 11, 1982, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Typhoon Roger. 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
December 5, 1982 to December 11, 1982
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.1
Identifier
WP281982

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
Dec 5, 00:006.8N 139.2EDisturbance
Dec 5, 06:006.8N 139.4EDisturbance
Dec 5, 12:006.9N 139.4EDisturbance
Dec 5, 18:006.9N 139.1EDisturbance
Dec 6, 00:007.0N 138.2EDisturbance
Dec 6, 06:007.2N 136.7EDisturbance
Dec 6, 12:007.5N 135.1EDisturbance
Dec 6, 18:008.2N 134.0EDisturbance
Dec 7, 00:009.0N 132.8EDisturbance
Dec 7, 06:0010.1N 130.8E25 ktMixed
Dec 7, 12:0010.8N 129.1E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Dec 7, 18:0011.5N 127.2E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 00:0012.4N 125.5E50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 06:0013.2N 124.2E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 12:0013.8N 123.3E55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 8, 18:0014.5N 122.4E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 00:0015.0N 122.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 06:0015.8N 121.8E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 12:0016.5N 122.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 9, 18:0017.3N 122.5E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 00:0018.0N 122.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 06:0018.5N 122.5E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 12:0019.2N 122.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Dec 10, 18:0019.9N 122.3E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Dec 11, 00:0020.7N 122.3E1010 mbMixed
Dec 11, 06:0021.1N 123.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Dec 11, 12:0022.0N 125.0E1010 mbTropical storm
Dec 11, 18:0022.0N 127.0E1010 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.