The 1984 season

Typhoon Agnes (1984)

Typhoon Agnes reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between October 28, 1984 and November 9, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 925 mb, and made landfall. It killed 1,029 people, as Wikidata records it.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Agnes, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1984 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
October 28, 1984 to November 9, 1984
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
925 mb (27.32 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.7
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
WP271984

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

Wikidata

1,029 deathsno damage figure

A community-maintained total, usually direct and indirect deaths together and damage worldwide. Joined to this storm by its IBTrACS serial, not by name.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 28, 00:000.1N 148.5EDisturbance
Oct 28, 06:000.3N 148.4EDisturbance
Oct 28, 12:000.5N 148.3EDisturbance
Oct 28, 18:000.7N 148.2EDisturbance
Oct 29, 00:001.0N 148.0EDisturbance
Oct 29, 06:001.3N 147.7EDisturbance
Oct 29, 12:001.7N 147.4EDisturbance
Oct 29, 18:002.0N 147.1EDisturbance
Oct 30, 00:002.3N 146.8EDisturbance
Oct 30, 06:002.7N 146.4EDisturbance
Oct 30, 12:003.0N 146.1E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:003.3N 145.8E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:003.6N 145.6E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:003.9N 145.3E25 ktTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:004.4N 144.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:004.8N 144.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:005.4N 143.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:005.9N 143.0E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:006.8N 141.8E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:007.4N 140.4E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:007.8N 139.4E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:008.3N 138.4E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:008.6N 137.3E65 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:008.8N 136.3E80 kt985 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:009.1N 135.2E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:009.4N 134.0E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:009.6N 132.7E110 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:009.8N 131.4E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0010.1N 130.1E110 kt930 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 06:0010.5N 128.8E115 kt925 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 12:0010.8N 127.4E115 kt925 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 18:0011.2N 125.8E120 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 00:0011.5N 124.0E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 06:0011.6N 122.4E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 12:0011.8N 120.8E70 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 5, 18:0012.1N 119.4E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 00:0012.2N 117.7E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 06:0012.5N 115.8E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0012.9N 114.0E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0013.3N 112.3E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0013.7N 111.3E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0013.9N 110.2E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0014.2N 109.0E85 kt975 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 18:0014.3N 107.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 00:0014.7N 106.2E25 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 06:0015.3N 104.9E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 8, 12:0016.3N 104.0E15 kt1006 mbMixed
Nov 8, 18:0017.0N 103.0E1006 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 00:0018.0N 103.0E1008 mbTropical storm
Nov 9, 06:0019.0N 103.0E1008 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1984

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.