The 1988 season

Tropical Storm Daniel (1988)

Tropical Storm Daniel peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 19, 1988 and July 26, 1988, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Daniel, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1988 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 19, 1988 to July 26, 1988
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 937 km (582 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.8
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP041988

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
Jul 19, 12:0014.6N 112.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 19, 18:0014.9N 113.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 00:0015.1N 113.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 06:0015.3N 113.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0015.5N 114.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0015.7N 114.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0016.1N 115.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0016.6N 116.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0017.2N 117.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0017.8N 118.5W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0018.5N 119.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0018.9N 120.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0019.1N 122.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0019.2N 123.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0019.4N 124.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0019.7N 125.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0020.5N 126.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0021.3N 127.2W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0022.2N 128.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 06:0022.7N 129.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 12:0023.2N 130.1W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 18:0023.8N 131.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 00:0024.3N 132.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 06:0024.7N 133.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 12:0025.1N 134.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 25, 18:0025.5N 135.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 00:0025.8N 135.5W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 06:0025.7N 135.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 12:0025.6N 135.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 18:0025.5N 136.0W20 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1988

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.