Hurricane Lili (1984)

Hurricane Lili reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between December 12, 1984 and December 24, 1984, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Lili, 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: North Atlantic
Dates: December 12, 1984 to December 24, 1984
Peak strength: Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure: 980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 6.2
Fastest the center moved: 35 kt (40 mph)
Identifier: AL201984

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)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Dec 12, 12:00	34.5N 60.5W	50 kt	995 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 12, 18:00	35.5N 60.0W	50 kt	995 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 13, 00:00	35.5N 60.0W	55 kt	993 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 13, 06:00	35.5N 60.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 13, 12:00	34.9N 59.8W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 13, 18:00	33.8N 59.5W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 14, 00:00	32.7N 59.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 14, 06:00	32.0N 58.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 14, 12:00	31.4N 57.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 14, 18:00	30.5N 56.2W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 15, 00:00	28.9N 55.9W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 15, 06:00	27.2N 55.8W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 15, 12:00	25.8N 56.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 15, 18:00	24.5N 56.3W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 16, 00:00	23.4N 56.2W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 16, 06:00	22.4N 55.4W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 16, 12:00	22.4N 54.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 16, 18:00	23.2N 52.7W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 17, 00:00	24.8N 50.8W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 17, 06:00	28.0N 49.6W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 17, 12:00	31.2N 49.9W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 17, 18:00	33.0N 51.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 18, 00:00	34.5N 53.0W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 18, 06:00	34.0N 53.6W	55 kt	994 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 18, 12:00	33.1N 53.7W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 18, 18:00	32.8N 53.5W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 19, 00:00	32.5N 53.3W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 19, 06:00	32.4N 53.2W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 19, 12:00	32.3N 53.1W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 19, 18:00	32.2N 53.0W	60 kt	990 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 20, 00:00	32.0N 52.9W	60 kt	989 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 20, 06:00	31.6N 52.5W	60 kt	988 mb	Subtropical storm
Dec 20, 12:00	31.1N 52.4W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 20, 18:00	30.5N 52.3W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 21, 00:00	30.0N 52.2W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 21, 06:00	29.5N 52.1W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 21, 12:00	29.0N 52.0W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 21, 18:00	28.5N 52.0W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 22, 00:00	27.8N 52.2W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 22, 06:00	27.0N 52.9W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 22, 12:00	26.0N 54.0W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 22, 18:00	24.8N 55.6W	70 kt	980 mb	Hurricane
Dec 23, 00:00	23.6N 57.1W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Dec 23, 06:00	22.7N 58.9W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 23, 12:00	22.0N 61.0W	50 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 23, 18:00	21.2N 63.1W	45 kt	1007 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 24, 00:00	20.5N 65.1W	35 kt	1009 mb	Tropical storm
Dec 24, 06:00	19.9N 67.5W	30 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Dec 24, 12:00	19.2N 69.4W	25 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.

Wikipedia article: Hurricane Lili