1980 Pacific hurricane season

Infobox hurricane season
Basin=EPac
Year=1980
Track=1980 Pacific hurricane season map.png First storm formed=April 4, 1980
Last storm dissipated=October 29, 1980
Strongest storm name=Kay
Strongest storm pressure=
Strongest storm winds=120
Average wind speed=1
Total depressions=16
Total storms=15
Total hurricanes=7
Total intense=3
Fatalities=0
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five seasons=1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982The 1980 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1980 in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1980 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1980. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

This season is mainly notable for its lack nof notable storms. No one was killed, and no tropical cyclones made landfall. Excluding a storm that entered from the western Pacific basin, fourteen tropical storms and hurricanes formed. This total is slightly below the long-term average. All eastern Pacific systems this year formed in the eastern Pacific proper.

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torms

Tropical Storm Carmen

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Carmen 1980 track.pngFormed=April 4
Dissipated=April 8
1-min winds=45A tropical low strengthened into a tropical depression just after crossing the dateline into the western Pacific. It strengthened into Tropical Storm Carmen, one of the latest first storms in the western Pacific.Fact|date=July 2007 It soon recurved and entered the Central Pacific, and the JTWC relinquished responsibility to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Carmen soon came nearly to a standstill and dissipated April 8. Although a rare April storm, it technically did not start the east Pacific season as it organized west of the dateline.

Hurricane Agatha

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Agatha 1980 track.pngFormed=June 9
Dissipated=June 15
1-min winds=100

Tropical Storm Blas

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Blas 1980 track.pngFormed=June 16
Dissipated=June 19
1-min winds=50

Tropical Depression Three-E

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Formed=June 17
Dissipated=June 19
1-min winds=30

Hurricane Celia

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Celia 1980 track.pngFormed=June 25
Dissipated=June 29
1-min winds=65Celia's remnants brought rain to Santa Barbara County, California on the last two days of June.

Tropical Storm Darby

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Darby 1980 track.pngFormed=July 1
Dissipated=July 3
1-min winds=45

Tropical Storm Estelle

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Estelle 1980 track.pngFormed=July 12
Dissipated=July 13
1-min winds=40

Tropical Storm Frank

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Frank 1980 track.pngFormed=July 18
Dissipated=July 22
1-min winds=45

Hurricane Georgette

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Georgette 1980 track.pngFormed=July 28
Dissipated=July 31
1-min winds=65

Hurricane Howard

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Howard 1980 track.pngFormed=July 31
Dissipated=August 7
1-min winds=90

Hurricane Isis

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Isis 1980 track.pngFormed=August 5
Dissipated=August 11
1-min winds=85

Hurricane Javier

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Javier 1980 track.pngFormed=August 22
Dissipated=August 29
1-min winds=100

Hurricane Kay

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac


Track=Kay 1980 track.pngFormed=September 16
Dissipated=September 30
1-min winds=120Kay was the strongest storm of the season at 140 mph.

Tropical Storm Lester

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Lester 1980 track.pngFormed=September 21
Dissipated=September 25
1-min winds=35

Tropical Storm Madeline

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Madeline 1980 track.pngFormed=October 11
Dissipated=October 12
1-min winds=45

Tropical Storm Newton

Infobox Hurricane Small
Basin=EPac
Track=Newton 1980 track.pngFormed=October 28
Dissipated=October 29
1-min winds=35Newton approached close to the Pacific coast of Mexico, but dissipated before making landfall.

1980 storm names

The following names were used for named storms that formed in the eastern Pacific in 1980. No names were retired, so it was used again in the 1986 season. This was the first time these names were used since the modern lists began.

The central Pacific used names and numbers from the western Pacific's typhoon list. No names were required, as Carmen was named in the western Pacific.

ee also

*List of Pacific hurricanes
*List of Pacific hurricane seasons
*1980 Atlantic hurricane season
*1980 Pacific typhoon season
*1980 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
*Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons: 1979–80, 1980–81

External links

* [http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0493/109/8/pdf/i1520-0493-109-8-1701.pdf Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones of 1980]
* [http://www.prh.noaa.gov/cphc/summaries/1980.php CPHC Season Summary]
* [http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/e_pacific/1980/index.html Unisys Weather archive for the Eastern Pacific, 1980]
* [http://metocph.nmci.navy.mil/jtwc/atcr/1980atcr/pdf/wnp/02.pdf ATCR archive for Tropical Storm Carmen]