The 1984 season

Hurricane Norbert (1984)

Hurricane Norbert reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 14, 1984 and September 26, 1984, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Norbert, 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 14, 1984 to September 26, 1984
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
39.7
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP151984

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 14, 18:0018.5N 115.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 15, 00:0018.1N 115.5W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0017.9N 115.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0017.8N 115.0W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0017.7N 114.8W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0017.5N 114.3W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0017.3N 113.7W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0017.2N 113.0W65 ktHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0017.1N 112.5W70 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0017.1N 112.0W75 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0017.4N 111.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 12:0017.7N 111.7W80 ktHurricane
Sep 17, 18:0017.9N 111.8W85 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 00:0018.3N 112.0W100 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 06:0018.6N 112.5W100 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 12:0018.9N 112.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 18, 18:0019.1N 113.4W100 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 00:0019.4N 113.9W100 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 06:0019.5N 114.6W100 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 12:0019.6N 115.1W100 ktHurricane
Sep 19, 18:0019.5N 115.8W100 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 00:0019.4N 116.3W100 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0018.9N 116.7W100 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0018.3N 116.7W110 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0017.8N 116.5W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 00:0017.3N 116.1W115 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0016.9N 115.4W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0016.6N 114.4W105 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0016.5N 113.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0016.5N 111.9W115 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0016.5N 110.8W105 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0016.6N 109.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0017.0N 108.9W115 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 00:0017.4N 108.4W115 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 06:0017.8N 108.3W110 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 12:0018.3N 108.3W105 ktHurricane
Sep 23, 18:0018.8N 108.7W105 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 00:0019.3N 109.1W110 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 06:0019.9N 109.6W115 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 12:0020.7N 110.3W115 ktHurricane
Sep 24, 18:0021.5N 111.1W100 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 00:0022.3N 112.0W90 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 06:0023.1N 112.6W105 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 12:0024.1N 113.1W105 ktHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0025.1N 113.5W75 ktHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0026.1N 113.6W60 ktTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0027.1N 113.5W45 ktTropical storm

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.