The 1984 season

Cyclone Chloe (1984)

Cyclone Chloe reached Category 1 in the South Indian between February 26, 1984 and March 3, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 955 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Chloe, 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
South Indian
Dates
February 26, 1984 to March 3, 1984
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
955 mb (28.20 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.8
Identifier
SH261984

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
Feb 26, 00:0014.1S 123.5E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 06:0014.4S 123.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 12:0014.5S 123.2E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 26, 18:0015.0S 123.4E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 00:0015.6S 123.7E35 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 06:0016.0S 123.4E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 12:0016.4S 122.9E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 27, 18:0016.9S 122.3E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 00:0017.4S 121.5E50 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 06:0018.1S 120.4E60 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 12:0018.7S 119.4E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Feb 28, 18:0019.1S 118.7E65 kt968 mbTropical storm
Feb 29, 00:0019.5S 118.1E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Feb 29, 06:0019.9S 117.7E70 kt955 mbTropical storm
Feb 29, 12:0020.3S 117.2E75 kt955 mbTropical storm
Feb 29, 18:0020.8S 116.8E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 00:0021.5S 116.3E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 06:0022.2S 115.5E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 12:0022.8S 114.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Mar 1, 18:0023.2S 113.9E35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 00:0023.4S 113.6E30 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 06:0022.9S 113.8E25 kt999 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 12:0022.9S 113.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Mar 2, 18:0023.0S 113.9E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Mar 3, 00:0023.0S 113.9E25 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Mar 3, 06:0023.1S 113.9E20 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Mar 3, 12:0023.2S 114.2E20 kt1002 mbTropical storm

Other South Indian 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.