The 1989 season

Hurricane Barbara (1989)

Hurricane Barbara reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between June 13, 1989 and June 22, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 984 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Barbara, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1989 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
June 13, 1989 to June 22, 1989
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
984 mb (29.06 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 571 km (355 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.0
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP021989

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
Jun 13, 18:0011.2N 104.9W25 ktNot reported
Jun 14, 00:0011.4N 105.1W25 ktNot reported
Jun 14, 06:0011.5N 105.6W25 ktNot reported
Jun 14, 12:0011.4N 106.5W25 ktNot reported
Jun 14, 18:0011.3N 107.5W25 ktNot reported
Jun 15, 00:0011.2N 108.1W25 ktNot reported
Jun 15, 06:0011.6N 108.2W25 ktNot reported
Jun 15, 12:0012.3N 107.8W25 ktNot reported
Jun 15, 18:0012.9N 107.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 00:0013.5N 107.1W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 06:0013.7N 106.9W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 12:0013.8N 106.9W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 18:0014.0N 107.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0014.3N 107.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0014.6N 107.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0015.1N 108.0W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 17, 18:0015.5N 108.6W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 00:0015.9N 109.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jun 18, 06:0016.2N 110.3W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jun 18, 12:0016.4N 111.1W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jun 18, 18:0016.7N 111.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jun 19, 00:0017.0N 112.7W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0017.3N 113.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0017.4N 114.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0017.4N 114.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0017.6N 115.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 20, 06:0017.7N 115.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 20, 12:0017.8N 116.1W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 20, 18:0017.8N 116.7W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 00:0017.7N 117.3W20 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Jun 21, 06:0017.6N 117.7W25 ktNot reported
Jun 21, 12:0017.5N 118.2W25 ktNot reported
Jun 21, 18:0017.3N 118.8W25 ktNot reported
Jun 22, 00:0017.2N 119.3W25 ktNot reported
Jun 22, 06:0017.0N 119.8W25 ktNot reported
Jun 22, 12:0016.8N 120.3W25 ktNot reported
Jun 22, 18:0016.7N 120.8W25 ktNot reported

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1989

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.