The 1984 season

Cyclone Fanja:Vivienne (1984)

Cyclone Fanja:Vivienne reached Category 1 in the South Indian between January 22, 1984 and January 30, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Cyclone Fanja:Vivienne, 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
January 22, 1984 to January 30, 1984
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1187 km (738 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.6
Identifier
SH161984

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
Jan 22, 06:007.9S 85.5E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 12:008.1S 86.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 18:008.5S 88.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 23, 00:009.0S 89.3E25 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 06:009.7S 90.4E25 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 12:0010.6S 91.0E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 23, 18:0011.6S 90.9E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 00:0012.5S 90.5E25 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 06:0013.4S 89.9E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 12:0014.0S 89.2E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jan 24, 18:0014.3S 88.4E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 00:0014.7S 87.5E35 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 06:0014.9S 86.6E40 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0014.9S 85.8E40 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0014.9S 85.0E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0014.9S 84.3E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0014.9S 83.6E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0014.9S 82.8E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0015.0S 82.1E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0015.1S 81.4E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0015.2S 80.7E75 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0015.5S 80.0E75 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0015.8S 79.2E70 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0016.1S 78.2E65 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0016.3S 77.2E60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0016.5S 76.2E60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0016.7S 75.2E55 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0017.1S 74.2E50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0017.8S 73.1E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0018.6S 72.0E45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0019.4S 70.7E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0019.9S 69.3E35 kt1000 mbMixed
Jan 30, 06:0020.3S 67.6E30 kt1003 mbMixed

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.