The 1983 season

Tropical Storm Norris (1983)

Tropical Storm Norris peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between November 7, 1983 and November 11, 1983, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Norris, 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
November 7, 1983 to November 11, 1983
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1781 km (1107 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.7
Identifier
WP191983

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
Nov 7, 00:0015.4N 160.9EDisturbance
Nov 7, 06:0015.7N 160.1EDisturbance
Nov 7, 12:0016.0N 159.2EDisturbance
Nov 7, 18:0016.3N 158.0EDisturbance
Nov 8, 00:0016.8N 156.5E30 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0017.4N 154.7E35 ktTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0017.9N 153.0E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 18:0018.4N 152.1E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0018.8N 151.8E50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0019.4N 151.5E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 12:0020.2N 151.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 18:0021.1N 151.8E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 00:0022.2N 152.7E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 06:0023.4N 153.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 12:0024.9N 154.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 10, 18:0025.9N 155.7E1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 00:0027.1N 157.1E1008 mbMixed
Nov 11, 06:0028.8N 159.1E1008 mbTropical storm
Nov 11, 12:0029.5N 161.0E1008 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.