The 1989 season

Tropical Storm Narda (1989)

Tropical Storm Narda peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 3, 1989 and September 8, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Narda, 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
September 3, 1989 to September 8, 1989
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 178 km (111 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.9
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP171989

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
Sep 3, 00:0014.2N 97.4W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 06:0014.4N 98.8W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 12:0014.4N 100.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 18:0014.5N 102.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 4, 00:0014.6N 103.2W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0014.8N 104.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0015.1N 105.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0015.5N 107.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0015.9N 108.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 06:0016.3N 109.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 12:0016.7N 110.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 18:0017.2N 111.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 00:0017.6N 112.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 06:0017.9N 113.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 12:0018.2N 114.5W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 6, 18:0018.6N 115.7W35 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 7, 00:0019.1N 116.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 06:0019.5N 117.7W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 12:0019.8N 118.6W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0020.0N 119.4W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 00:0020.1N 120.2W20 kt1012 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.