The 1984 season

Hurricane Odile (1984)

Hurricane Odile reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between September 17, 1984 and September 23, 1984, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Odile, 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 17, 1984 to September 23, 1984
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.6
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP161984

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 17, 18:0014.3N 101.5W30 ktTropical depression
Sep 18, 00:0014.5N 102.2W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0014.7N 102.9W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0015.0N 103.6W35 ktTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0015.2N 104.1W40 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0015.4N 104.5W45 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 06:0015.7N 104.9W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 12:0016.0N 105.0W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 19, 18:0016.3N 104.7W55 ktTropical storm
Sep 20, 00:0016.5N 104.5W65 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 06:0016.6N 104.1W65 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 12:0016.6N 103.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 20, 18:0016.6N 103.2W65 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 00:0016.6N 102.6W65 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 06:0016.4N 101.9W65 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 12:0016.3N 101.2W65 ktHurricane
Sep 21, 18:0016.4N 100.9W80 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 00:0016.4N 100.8W80 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 06:0016.5N 100.7W90 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 12:0017.0N 102.0W85 ktHurricane
Sep 22, 18:0018.0N 102.0W50 ktTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0019.0N 102.0W25 ktExtratropical

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.