Hurricane Adolph (1983)

Hurricane Adolph reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between May 21, 1983 and May 28, 1983, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Adolph, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1983 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: May 21, 1983 to May 28, 1983
Peak strength: Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 11.2
Fastest the center moved: 12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier: EP011983

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)	Position	Wind	Status
May 21, 00:00	7.1N 91.5W	25 kt	Tropical depression
May 21, 06:00	7.4N 92.7W	25 kt	Tropical depression
May 21, 12:00	7.8N 93.8W	30 kt	Tropical depression
May 21, 18:00	8.1N 94.7W	40 kt	Tropical storm
May 22, 00:00	8.4N 95.5W	45 kt	Tropical storm
May 22, 06:00	8.7N 96.7W	45 kt	Tropical storm
May 22, 12:00	8.8N 97.7W	45 kt	Tropical storm
May 22, 18:00	9.1N 98.7W	50 kt	Tropical storm
May 23, 00:00	9.4N 99.4W	55 kt	Tropical storm
May 23, 06:00	9.8N 100.2W	55 kt	Tropical storm
May 23, 12:00	10.0N 101.0W	55 kt	Tropical storm
May 23, 18:00	10.4N 101.8W	65 kt	Hurricane
May 24, 00:00	10.8N 102.6W	80 kt	Hurricane
May 24, 06:00	11.4N 103.2W	95 kt	Hurricane
May 24, 12:00	12.0N 103.9W	95 kt	Hurricane
May 24, 18:00	12.5N 104.5W	95 kt	Hurricane
May 25, 00:00	13.0N 105.0W	95 kt	Hurricane
May 25, 06:00	13.4N 105.4W	90 kt	Hurricane
May 25, 12:00	13.9N 105.9W	85 kt	Hurricane
May 25, 18:00	14.4N 106.1W	80 kt	Hurricane
May 26, 00:00	14.8N 106.0W	65 kt	Hurricane
May 26, 06:00	15.2N 105.8W	60 kt	Tropical storm
May 26, 12:00	15.8N 105.5W	60 kt	Tropical storm
May 26, 18:00	16.5N 105.4W	55 kt	Tropical storm
May 27, 00:00	17.4N 105.2W	50 kt	Tropical storm
May 27, 06:00	18.2N 105.1W	45 kt	Tropical storm
May 27, 12:00	19.2N 105.2W	40 kt	Tropical storm
May 27, 18:00	20.2N 105.3W	35 kt	Tropical storm
May 28, 00:00	21.2N 105.6W	35 kt	Tropical storm
May 28, 06:00	22.3N 105.8W	35 kt	Tropical storm
May 28, 12:00	23.4N 106.0W	30 kt	Extratropical

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1983

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.