The 1984 season

Hurricane Keli (1984)

Hurricane Keli reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between August 16, 1984 and August 22, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Keli, 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
August 16, 1984 to August 22, 1984
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 928 km (577 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.5
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
CP011984

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
Aug 16, 18:009.2N 150.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 17, 00:009.4N 151.4W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:009.7N 153.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0010.1N 154.7W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0010.5N 156.4W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0010.9N 158.0W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0011.3N 159.6W70 ktHurricane
Aug 18, 12:0011.7N 161.2W75 ktHurricane
Aug 18, 18:0011.9N 162.9W80 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 00:0012.0N 164.4W80 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 06:0012.2N 165.6W80 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 12:0012.6N 166.9W80 ktHurricane
Aug 19, 18:0013.2N 167.8W85 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 00:0013.9N 168.6W90 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 06:0014.6N 169.5W100 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 12:0015.5N 170.1W90 ktHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0016.2N 170.4W75 ktHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0016.7N 170.9W60 ktTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0017.0N 171.2W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0017.1N 171.7W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0017.1N 172.2W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0017.0N 172.8W30 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.