The 1984 season

Hurricane Fausto (1984)

Hurricane Fausto reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between July 3, 1984 and July 10, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Fausto, 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
July 3, 1984 to July 10, 1984
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 159 km (99 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.5
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP061984

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
Jul 3, 12:0015.8N 103.9W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 3, 18:0016.1N 104.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0016.4N 105.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0016.7N 106.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0017.0N 106.6W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0017.3N 107.0W65 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 00:0017.5N 107.5W75 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 06:0017.6N 107.7W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 12:0017.8N 108.0W80 ktHurricane
Jul 5, 18:0017.9N 108.1W90 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 00:0018.2N 108.3W95 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 06:0018.7N 108.6W95 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 12:0019.3N 108.8W95 ktHurricane
Jul 6, 18:0019.9N 109.1W90 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 00:0020.3N 109.6W90 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 06:0020.7N 110.1W90 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 12:0021.1N 110.4W90 ktHurricane
Jul 7, 18:0021.5N 110.7W85 ktHurricane
Jul 8, 00:0022.0N 111.3W80 ktHurricane
Jul 8, 06:0022.7N 112.0W70 ktHurricane
Jul 8, 12:0023.3N 112.7W55 ktTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0023.9N 113.5W45 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0024.0N 114.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0024.0N 115.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 9, 12:0023.9N 116.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jul 9, 18:0023.9N 117.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jul 10, 00:0023.9N 117.8W25 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.