The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Cesar (1984)

Tropical Storm Cesar peaked at 50 kt in the North Atlantic between August 31, 1984 and September 2, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cesar, 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 31, 1984 to September 2, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 162 km (101 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.5
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
AL081984

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 31, 00:0036.6N 66.9W25 kt1008 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0037.8N 66.0W30 kt1005 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0038.9N 65.0W35 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0039.8N 63.1W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0040.6N 61.1W40 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0041.7N 59.0W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 12:0042.9N 56.9W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 18:0044.0N 54.9W40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0044.9N 53.3W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0045.5N 51.8W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0046.0N 50.4W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0046.2N 48.9W50 kt989 mbExtratropical

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.