Tropical Storm Rachel (1984)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

October 7, 1984 to October 16, 1984

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 494 km (307 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

2.6

Fastest the center moved

11 kt (13 mph)

Identifier

EP181984

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.

• Tropical Storm AlmaEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm50 kt
• Hurricane BorisEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 165 kt
• Hurricane CristinaEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 290 kt
• Hurricane DouglasEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 4125 kt
• Hurricane ElidaEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 4115 kt
• Hurricane FaustoEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 295 kt
• Hurricane GenevieveEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 3100 kt
• Tropical Storm HernanEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane IselleEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 4115 kt
• Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm55 kt
• Hurricane KeliEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 3100 kt
• Tropical Storm KennaEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm50 kt
• Tropical Storm LalaEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane LowellEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm MokeEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane MarieEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 180 kt
• Hurricane NorbertEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 4115 kt
• Hurricane OdileEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 290 kt
• Hurricane PoloEastern Pacific · 1984Cat 3100 kt
• Tropical Storm SimonEastern Pacific · 1984Tropical Storm55 kt

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.

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.