The 1902 season

Unnamed hurricane (1902)

Unnamed hurricane reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between October 3, 1902 and October 13, 1902, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 3, 1902 to October 13, 1902
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.5
Identifier
AL041902

Deaths and damage

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.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 3, 00:0014.0N 93.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 3, 06:0014.5N 94.0W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 3, 12:0015.0N 94.2W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 3, 18:0015.5N 94.3W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 4, 00:0016.0N 94.4W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 4, 06:0016.5N 94.5W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 4, 12:0017.0N 94.6W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 4, 18:0017.5N 94.7W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 5, 00:0018.0N 94.8W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 5, 06:0018.5N 94.9W30 ktTropical depression
Oct 5, 12:0018.7N 94.9W35 ktTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0018.8N 94.7W45 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0018.9N 94.4W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0019.1N 94.0W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0019.3N 93.7W65 ktHurricane
Oct 6, 18:0019.5N 93.3W75 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 00:0019.7N 92.9W85 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 06:0020.0N 92.5W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 12:0020.3N 92.0W90 ktHurricane
Oct 7, 18:0020.7N 91.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 00:0021.1N 91.1W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 06:0021.5N 90.8W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 12:0022.0N 90.5W90 ktHurricane
Oct 8, 18:0022.7N 90.2W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 00:0023.4N 90.0W90 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0023.9N 89.9W85 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0024.5N 89.7W80 ktHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0025.3N 89.5W70 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0026.2N 89.1W65 ktHurricane
Oct 10, 06:0027.1N 88.8W60 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0028.0N 88.5W55 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0029.4N 87.8W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 10, 21:00 landfall30.3N 87.3W50 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0031.0N 86.9W40 ktTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0032.5N 85.9W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 11, 12:0033.7N 84.8W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 11, 18:0034.9N 82.8W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 00:0036.4N 80.5W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 06:0037.6N 78.0W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 12:0038.8N 72.8W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 12, 18:0039.9N 69.1W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 13, 00:0040.9N 65.5W35 ktExtratropical
Oct 13, 06:0041.9N 61.0W40 ktExtratropical
Oct 13, 12:0042.8N 55.1W40 ktExtratropical

What this means

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.

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.