Hurricanes

The 1987 season

104 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

1 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 126 people in all.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

14 storms, 7 at tropical storm strength, 3 hurricanes, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 34.4.

Eastern Pacific

21 storms, 21 at tropical storm strength, 11 hurricanes, 6 major; accumulated cyclone energy 178.2.

Western Pacific

27 storms, 23 at tropical storm strength, 16 typhoons, 10 major; accumulated cyclone energy 316.0.

North Indian

11 storms, 8 at tropical storm strength, 0 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 14.6.

South Indian

14 storms, 12 at tropical storm strength, 3 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 56.9.

South Pacific

17 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 8 at hurricane force, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 82.5.

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.