The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Galy (1984)

Tropical Storm Galy peaked at 36 kt in the South Indian between January 25, 1984 and February 8, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 991 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Galy, 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 25, 1984 to February 8, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 36 kt (41 mph), ten-minute wind
Lowest pressure
991 mb (29.26 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
1984025S14073

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 25, 06:0013.9S 73.2ETropical storm
Jan 25, 12:0012.8S 72.1ETropical storm
Jan 25, 18:0011.9S 70.7ETropical storm
Jan 26, 00:0011.3S 69.0ETropical storm
Jan 26, 06:0011.1S 67.5ETropical storm
Jan 26, 12:0011.0S 66.7ETropical storm
Jan 26, 18:0011.2S 66.1ETropical storm
Jan 27, 00:0011.4S 65.5ETropical storm
Jan 27, 06:0011.9S 64.9ETropical storm
Jan 27, 12:0013.0S 64.1ETropical storm
Jan 27, 18:0014.2S 63.5ETropical storm
Jan 28, 00:0015.4S 63.3ETropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0016.2S 63.1ETropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0016.1S 62.3ETropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0015.4S 61.2ETropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0014.5S 59.7ETropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0013.8S 58.3ETropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0013.8S 57.2E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0014.0S 56.3E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0014.0S 55.4E36 ktMixed
Jan 30, 06:0014.6S 55.2E36 ktMixed
Jan 30, 12:0015.5S 56.2E36 ktMixed
Jan 30, 18:0016.2S 57.2E36 ktMixed
Jan 31, 00:0017.5S 58.2E36 ktMixed
Jan 31, 06:0019.0S 58.4E20 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0020.2S 56.5E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0020.9S 54.5E24 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0021.1S 52.8E28 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 06:0021.3S 51.2E36 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 12:0021.4S 50.4E36 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 1, 18:0021.4S 49.8E36 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 00:0021.5S 49.1E36 kt991 mbTropical storm
Feb 2, 06:0021.6S 47.8E36 ktMixed
Feb 2, 12:0022.2S 47.0E36 ktMixed
Feb 2, 18:0022.6S 47.0E36 ktMixed
Feb 3, 00:0024.0S 47.0E36 ktMixed
Feb 3, 06:0024.8S 47.2E36 ktMixed
Feb 3, 12:0025.1S 47.6E36 ktMixed
Feb 3, 18:0025.3S 48.1E36 ktMixed
Feb 4, 00:0025.7S 48.5E36 ktMixed
Feb 4, 06:0025.9S 49.0E36 ktMixed
Feb 4, 12:0026.5S 49.7ETropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0027.1S 50.3ETropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0027.2S 50.9ETropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0027.2S 51.1ETropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0027.5S 50.6ETropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0027.8S 49.5ETropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0027.7S 48.3ETropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0027.5S 46.9ETropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0027.3S 45.4ETropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0027.0S 43.8ETropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0026.5S 42.4ETropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0026.1S 41.2ETropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0026.0S 40.4ETropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0026.2S 39.7ETropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0026.5S 38.9ETropical storm
Feb 8, 06:0026.8S 38.1ETropical storm

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. This storm’s winds are ten-minute averages from its regional agency. They read about 12 percent lower than the one-minute winds US agencies use, so a Saffir-Simpson category is not given for it.

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.