The 1984 season

Hurricane Elida (1984)

Hurricane Elida reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between June 28, 1984 and July 8, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Elida, 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 28, 1984 to July 8, 1984
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 659 km (409 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
18.0
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
EP051984

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 28, 00:0010.1N 101.8W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 28, 06:0010.2N 102.6W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 28, 12:0010.4N 103.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 28, 18:0010.5N 104.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 29, 00:0010.9N 104.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 29, 06:0011.7N 105.6W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 29, 12:0012.5N 106.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0013.2N 107.0W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0013.9N 107.6W60 ktTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0014.3N 108.3W75 ktHurricane
Jun 30, 12:0014.6N 109.1W80 ktHurricane
Jun 30, 18:0015.0N 109.9W90 ktHurricane
Jul 1, 00:0015.3N 110.6W105 ktHurricane
Jul 1, 06:0015.5N 111.4W110 ktHurricane
Jul 1, 12:0015.7N 112.0W115 ktHurricane
Jul 1, 18:0015.9N 112.8W110 ktHurricane
Jul 2, 00:0016.0N 113.6W95 ktHurricane
Jul 2, 06:0016.1N 114.3W90 ktHurricane
Jul 2, 12:0016.2N 115.1W85 ktHurricane
Jul 2, 18:0016.4N 116.0W95 ktHurricane
Jul 3, 00:0016.6N 116.9W100 ktHurricane
Jul 3, 06:0016.8N 117.8W100 ktHurricane
Jul 3, 12:0017.0N 118.7W100 ktHurricane
Jul 3, 18:0017.0N 119.6W100 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 00:0017.0N 120.6W95 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 06:0016.9N 121.4W85 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 12:0016.8N 122.0W65 ktHurricane
Jul 4, 18:0016.7N 122.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0016.6N 122.8W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 06:0016.3N 123.1W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 12:0015.9N 123.3W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 5, 18:0015.5N 123.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 6, 00:0015.1N 123.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 6, 06:0015.0N 123.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 6, 12:0014.8N 123.6W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 6, 18:0014.9N 123.3W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 00:0015.0N 123.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 06:0015.1N 122.6W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 12:0015.2N 122.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 7, 18:0015.3N 121.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 00:0015.4N 120.4W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 06:0015.4N 119.5W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 12:0015.6N 117.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 8, 18:0015.8N 115.8W25 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.