The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Arthur (1984)

Tropical Storm Arthur peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between August 28, 1984 and September 5, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Arthur, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
August 28, 1984 to September 5, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 344 km (214 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.3
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
AL061984

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
Aug 28, 18:0010.5N 51.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 00:0010.5N 52.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 06:0010.6N 54.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0011.2N 55.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0011.8N 55.8W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0012.4N 56.3W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0013.0N 57.0W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0013.4N 57.4W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0014.0N 57.8W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.4N 58.0W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.8N 58.1W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0015.3N 58.2W35 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0016.0N 58.4W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0016.7N 58.6W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0016.9N 59.1W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0017.0N 59.8W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0017.2N 60.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0017.6N 60.6W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 06:0017.9N 61.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 12:0018.2N 61.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 2, 18:0018.7N 61.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 00:0018.9N 61.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 06:0019.2N 62.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 12:0019.5N 62.2W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0019.8N 62.6W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0020.2N 62.9W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 06:0021.0N 63.3W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 12:0021.8N 64.0W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 18:0022.3N 65.0W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 00:0022.8N 66.0W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 06:0023.1N 66.9W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 12:0024.0N 67.9W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Sep 5, 18:0025.0N 68.5W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.