The 1989 season

Tropical Storm Manuel (1989)

Tropical Storm Manuel peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 28, 1989 and August 31, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 1002 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Manuel, 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
August 28, 1989 to August 31, 1989
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1002 mb (29.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 160 km (99 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP161989

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
Aug 28, 18:0012.8N 95.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 00:0012.9N 96.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 06:0013.0N 97.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 12:0013.2N 97.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 29, 18:0013.4N 98.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0013.8N 99.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0014.3N 100.4W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0014.9N 101.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0015.5N 102.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0016.1N 103.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0016.7N 104.6W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0017.4N 105.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0018.4N 106.1W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression

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.