The 1983 season

Tropical Storm Georgia (1983)

Tropical Storm Georgia peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between September 27, 1983 and October 2, 1983, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Georgia, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
September 27, 1983 to October 2, 1983
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Identifier
WP121983

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 27, 12:0018.0N 117.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0018.0N 117.5E1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0017.2N 118.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 06:0017.9N 117.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 12:0018.8N 116.7E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 18:0019.2N 115.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 00:0019.2N 114.8E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 06:0019.2N 113.8E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0019.3N 112.5E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0019.3N 111.9E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0019.6N 111.0E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0020.1N 109.9E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 12:0020.2N 109.1E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 18:0020.2N 108.1E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 00:0020.2N 106.8E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 06:0020.5N 105.5E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 1, 12:0020.7N 104.6E30 kt1000 mbMixed
Oct 1, 18:0020.2N 104.0E1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 2, 00:0020.2N 103.0E1004 mbTropical storm

Other Western 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.