Hurricane Erin (1989)

Basin

North Atlantic

Dates

August 18, 1989 to August 27, 1989

Peak strength

Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)

Lowest pressure

968 mb (28.59 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 529 km (329 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

14.2

Fastest the center moved

28 kt (32 mph)

Identifier

AL071989

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Depression25 kt
• Tropical Storm AllisonNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Storm45 kt · 999 mb
• Tropical Storm BarryNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Storm45 kt · 1005 mb
• Hurricane ChantalNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 170 kt · 984 mb
• Hurricane DeanNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 290 kt · 968 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane FelixNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 175 kt · 979 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane GabrielleNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 4125 kt · 935 mb
• Hurricane HugoNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 5140 kt · 918 mb
• Tropical Storm IrisNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Storm60 kt · 1001 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane JerryNorth Atlantic · 1989Cat 175 kt · 982 mb
• Tropical Storm KarenNorth Atlantic · 1989Tropical Storm50 kt · 1000 mb

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.

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.