The 1984 season

Tropical Storm Lala (1984)

Tropical Storm Lala peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 23, 1984 and September 2, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lala, 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 23, 1984 to September 2, 1984
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 348 km (216 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP121984

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 23, 18:0011.1N 130.3W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 00:0011.2N 131.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 06:0011.2N 132.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0011.1N 133.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 18:0011.2N 134.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 00:0011.3N 135.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 06:0011.4N 136.4W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 12:0011.4N 137.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0011.3N 138.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 26, 00:0011.2N 139.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 26, 06:0011.1N 140.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 26, 12:0011.2N 141.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 26, 18:0011.4N 142.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 27, 00:0011.5N 142.8W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 27, 06:0011.5N 143.4W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 27, 12:0011.5N 144.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0011.5N 144.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0011.5N 145.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0011.5N 145.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 28, 12:0011.5N 146.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 28, 18:0011.5N 146.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 29, 00:0011.6N 147.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 29, 06:0011.8N 147.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0012.2N 147.6W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0012.4N 147.8W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0012.8N 148.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0013.1N 148.4W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0013.4N 148.8W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0013.8N 149.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.2N 149.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0014.7N 150.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0015.1N 150.9W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0015.6N 152.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0016.0N 153.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0016.0N 154.8W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0015.8N 156.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 1, 18:0015.5N 158.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 00:0015.4N 160.0W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 06:0015.4N 161.6W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 12:0015.4N 163.1W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 2, 18:0015.4N 164.5W25 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.