Typhoon Doyle (1984)

Typhoon Doyle reached Category 4 in the Western Pacific between December 1, 1984 and December 12, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Doyle, 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: December 1, 1984 to December 12, 1984
Peak strength: Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure: 940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 750 km (466 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 15.8
Identifier: WP301984

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 1, 00:00	4.6N 155.8E			Disturbance
Dec 1, 06:00	4.9N 154.5E			Disturbance
Dec 1, 12:00	5.2N 153.2E			Disturbance
Dec 1, 18:00	5.6N 152.0E			Disturbance
Dec 2, 00:00	6.0N 150.7E			Disturbance
Dec 2, 06:00	6.3N 149.2E	20 kt		Disturbance
Dec 2, 12:00	6.4N 148.1E	20 kt		Tropical storm
Dec 2, 18:00	6.6N 146.8E	20 kt		Tropical storm
Dec 3, 00:00	6.9N 145.4E	20 kt		Tropical storm
Dec 3, 06:00	7.0N 144.1E	20 kt		Tropical storm
Dec 3, 12:00	7.2N 142.9E	20 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 3, 18:00	7.4N 141.9E	20 kt	1004 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 00:00	7.5N 141.0E	25 kt	1004 mb	Mixed
Dec 4, 06:00	7.7N 140.2E	25 kt	1000 mb	Mixed
Dec 4, 12:00	8.0N 139.2E	30 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 4, 18:00	8.3N 138.3E	35 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 00:00	8.6N 137.5E	40 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 06:00	9.1N 136.7E	45 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 12:00	9.6N 136.0E	50 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 5, 18:00	10.2N 135.3E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 00:00	10.8N 134.8E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 06:00	11.5N 134.3E	50 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 12:00	12.2N 133.8E	55 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 6, 18:00	12.9N 133.4E	65 kt	980 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 00:00	13.6N 133.1E	80 kt	975 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 06:00	14.4N 132.7E	90 kt	960 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 12:00	15.0N 132.3E	90 kt	950 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 7, 18:00	15.5N 131.9E	105 kt	940 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 00:00	15.8N 131.7E	110 kt	940 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 06:00	16.1N 131.4E	115 kt	940 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 12:00	16.5N 131.1E	115 kt	940 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 8, 18:00	17.0N 130.7E	120 kt	945 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 00:00	17.5N 130.4E	125 kt	955 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 06:00	18.1N 130.1E	120 kt	965 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 12:00	18.7N 130.0E	95 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 9, 18:00	19.2N 129.9E	65 kt	985 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 00:00	19.9N 130.1E	45 kt	990 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 06:00	20.8N 130.4E	40 kt	992 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 12:00	21.9N 131.2E	40 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 10, 18:00	22.9N 132.3E	35 kt	998 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 11, 00:00	23.9N 133.4E	30 kt	1000 mb	Mixed
Dec 11, 06:00	24.8N 135.0E	25 kt	1002 mb	Mixed
Dec 11, 12:00	26.2N 137.6E		1004 mb	Mixed
Dec 11, 18:00	27.3N 140.3E		1004 mb	Mixed
Dec 12, 00:00	28.3N 143.0E		1004 mb	Mixed

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.