The 1984 season

Hurricane Marie (1984)

Hurricane Marie reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between September 5, 1984 and September 11, 1984.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Marie, 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
September 5, 1984 to September 11, 1984
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 141 km (88 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.6
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP141984

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
Sep 5, 12:0016.8N 104.4W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 5, 18:0017.2N 105.3W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0017.6N 106.1W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0018.0N 107.3W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0018.7N 108.3W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0019.3N 109.5W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0020.0N 110.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0020.8N 111.6W75 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0021.5N 112.3W75 ktHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0022.4N 112.9W75 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0023.4N 113.3W80 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0024.3N 113.9W80 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0025.0N 115.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0025.9N 115.9W70 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0027.0N 116.2W70 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0028.0N 117.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0028.6N 118.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0029.0N 119.0W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0029.3N 119.6W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0029.8N 120.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0030.2N 120.3W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 10, 18:0030.4N 120.5W25 ktTropical depression
Sep 11, 00:0030.5N 120.6W20 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.