The 1982 season

Tropical Storm Tara (1982)

Tropical Storm Tara peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 19, 1982 and October 26, 1982.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Tara, 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
October 19, 1982 to October 26, 1982
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 905 km (562 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.2
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP191982

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
Oct 19, 18:009.4N 103.3W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 00:009.3N 105.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 06:009.1N 106.1W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 12:009.2N 107.4W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 20, 18:009.3N 108.6W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:009.5N 109.7W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 06:0010.3N 111.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0011.2N 112.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 21, 18:0012.4N 113.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:0013.3N 114.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0013.8N 116.1W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0014.2N 117.1W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0014.7N 118.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0015.0N 119.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0015.1N 121.0W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0015.2N 122.5W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0015.3N 123.3W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0015.5N 124.1W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0015.9N 124.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0016.7N 125.9W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0017.3N 126.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0017.9N 127.2W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0018.4N 127.9W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0019.0N 128.5W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0019.7N 129.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 00:0020.3N 129.8W25 ktTropical depression
Oct 26, 06:0021.0N 130.3W25 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.