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NORTH ATLANTIC · SEASON MAP

1982 Atlantic hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 8 storms · 2 Jun 1982–2 Oct 1982

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY31.5
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1982 Atlantic hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 8 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESCANADAMEXICOCUBABRAZILAFRICAEUROPECHINAJAPANINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanArabian SeaBay of BengalAlberto: 2 Jun–6 Jun, peak 75 kt, Category 1Unnamed: 18 Jun–20 Jun, no US-agency windBeryl: 28 Aug–6 Sep, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormUnnamed: 6 Sep–9 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionChris: 10 Sep–12 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormDebby: 13 Sep–20 Sep, peak 115 kt, Category 4Unnamed: 24 Sep–27 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depressionErnesto: 30 Sep–2 Oct, peak 60 kt, Tropical storm

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Alberto–75Cat 1985510
Unnamed–—Unclassified—1,890
Beryl–60Tropical storm9892,420
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—880
Chris–55Tropical storm994670
Debby–115Cat 49503,340
Unnamed–30Tropical depression—1,150
Ernesto–60Tropical storm997810

8 storms with an IBTrACS 1982 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 2 Jun 1982, last 2 Oct 1982.

Tropical storms6

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes2

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)1

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 50

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormDebby

115 kt · 132 mph / 213 km/h

Lowest pressure950 hPa

Debby, 18 Sept 1982

Longest track record9 days

Beryl, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind1

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 1982 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season?

The archive records 2 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 6 tropical storms, with 1 major hurricane reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season?

Debby, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 115 kt (Category 4) on 18 Sept 1982, 00:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 950 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 1982?

None. No storm in the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale in the archive.

When did the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 2 Jun 1982 and the last on 2 Oct 1982, from 8 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 1982 Atlantic hurricane season?

Alberto, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 3 Jun 1982, 18:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the North Atlantic basin for the 1982 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every North Atlantic season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology