Cyclone Sarah (1983)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

March 22, 1983 to April 3, 1983

Peak strength

Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)

Lowest pressure

940 mb (27.76 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 77 km (48 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

11.2

Identifier

SH181983

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.

• Cyclone JotiSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 165 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm KinaSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Storm40 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm LisaSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Storm55 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm DesSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Cyclone MarkSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 180 kt · 955 mb
• Cyclone NanoSouth Pacific · 1983Cyclone65 kt · 970 mb
• Cyclone ElinorSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 3100 kt · 935 mb
• Cyclone Nisha:OramaSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 3100 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone OscarSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 3100 kt · 920 mb
• Tropical Storm PremaSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Storm41 kt · 987 mb
• Cyclone RewaSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 290 kt · 925 mb
• Tropical Storm SabaSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Storm50 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1983Tropical Depression
• Cyclone TomasiSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 3102 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone VeenaSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 3100 kt · 925 mb
• Cyclone WilliamSouth Pacific · 1983Cat 176 kt · 955 mb

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.

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.