Hurricane Dinah path, 1980

What the record says

Dinah was a hurricane in the Eastern and central Pacific basin that lasted about 9 days, from 18 November 1980 to 27 November 1980. Its peak was Category 3 (100 kt) on 22 November 1980, with a 1-minute sustained wind of 100 kt (115 mph, 185 km/h). Its lowest recorded pressure was 950 hPa.

• Category 3peak intensity
• 100 ktpeak wind (115 mph)
• 950 hPalowest pressure
• 9 dayslifetime

Source of the peak wind: US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (western Pacific). The regional forecast centre (RSMC Tokyo (Japan Meteorological Agency)) gave a peak of 90 kt on its own averaging convention (10-minute winds), so the two figures differ.

It has its own page because it reached category 3 or stronger.

This page gives the official record's figures. It does not describe the human cost of the storm, which is far larger than any wind speed or pressure here.

Where it came ashore

The record shows no landfall: the storm stayed at sea.

Countries it came within 50 km of

Strongest effect first.

• Northern Mariana Islands
• Marshall Islands
• kiribati

US counties it came within 50 km of

• Saipan Municipality, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
• Tinian Municipality, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

How to read this track

The line joins the storm's six-hourly positions with straight lines, coloured by its intensity at each point, so it shows how the storm strengthened and weakened. The real path curved between the positions. A dashed grey stretch means the storm had become post-tropical. Records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are estimates.

Source: NOAA NCEI IBTrACS, public domain. See data sources and caveats.