The 1984 season

Hurricane Cristina (1984)

Hurricane Cristina reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between June 17, 1984 and June 26, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Cristina, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 17, 1984 to June 26, 1984
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 438 km (272 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.8
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP031984

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
Jun 17, 06:0014.0N 103.3W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 17, 12:0014.0N 103.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0014.0N 104.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0014.0N 104.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 06:0014.0N 105.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 12:0014.0N 105.9W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0014.0N 106.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0014.1N 106.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0014.2N 107.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0014.3N 107.7W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0014.4N 108.2W70 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 00:0014.7N 108.7W80 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 06:0014.8N 109.4W85 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 12:0014.8N 110.2W90 ktHurricane
Jun 20, 18:0014.6N 111.0W90 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 00:0014.5N 111.8W75 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 06:0014.6N 111.9W70 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 12:0014.8N 112.0W65 ktHurricane
Jun 21, 18:0015.1N 112.1W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 00:0015.5N 112.5W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 06:0016.0N 112.9W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 12:0016.4N 113.3W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 22, 18:0016.9N 113.8W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 23, 00:0017.3N 114.2W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0017.8N 114.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0018.3N 115.2W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0018.8N 115.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0019.4N 116.2W75 ktHurricane
Jun 24, 06:0019.8N 116.8W75 ktHurricane
Jun 24, 12:0020.0N 117.6W70 ktHurricane
Jun 24, 18:0020.1N 118.3W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 25, 00:0020.2N 119.1W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 25, 06:0020.2N 120.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 25, 12:0020.5N 121.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 25, 18:0021.0N 121.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 26, 00:0021.5N 122.6W30 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.

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