The 1989 season

Tropical Storm Winona (1989)

Tropical Storm Winona peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between January 9, 1989 and January 22, 1989, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Winona, 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
January 9, 1989 to January 22, 1989
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.8
Fastest the center moved
31 kt (36 mph)
Identifier
WP011989

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
Jan 9, 12:0015.9N 148.3W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 9, 18:0016.2N 149.3W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 10, 00:0016.4N 150.3W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 10, 06:0016.6N 151.5W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 10, 12:0016.8N 153.1W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 10, 18:0017.2N 154.9W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 11, 00:0017.9N 156.9W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 11, 06:0018.7N 158.3W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 11, 12:0019.5N 159.0W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 11, 18:0020.0N 160.0W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 00:0020.4N 161.3W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 06:0020.6N 162.4W25 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 12:0020.8N 163.8W30 ktTropical storm
Jan 12, 18:0021.0N 165.0W30 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 00:0021.3N 166.2W30 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 06:0021.2N 167.5W30 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 12:0021.0N 168.8W30 ktTropical storm
Jan 13, 18:0020.7N 170.5W35 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 00:0020.9N 172.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 06:0020.9N 173.1W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 12:0020.9N 174.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 14, 18:0021.0N 175.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 00:0021.0N 177.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 06:0021.0N 179.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jan 15, 12:0020.6N 178.7E40 kt1012 mbTropical storm
Jan 15, 18:0020.4N 176.7E40 kt1012 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 00:0019.7N 174.5E40 kt1012 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 06:0019.0N 172.0E40 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 12:0018.5N 169.3E40 kt1010 mbTropical storm
Jan 16, 18:0018.0N 166.6E40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 00:0017.7N 163.5E40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 06:0017.3N 160.8E40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 12:0016.8N 158.0E40 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jan 17, 18:0016.7N 156.0E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 00:0016.5N 153.8E40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 06:0016.4N 151.8E45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 12:0016.2N 150.0E50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 18, 18:0015.8N 148.0E50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 00:0015.2N 145.7E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 06:0014.6N 142.9E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 12:0014.0N 140.0E55 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jan 19, 18:0013.8N 137.2E45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 00:0013.5N 134.5E40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 06:0013.5N 132.3E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 12:0013.5N 130.5E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 20, 18:0013.3N 128.9E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 00:0013.1N 127.7E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jan 21, 06:0012.3N 126.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 12:0011.9N 124.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 21, 18:0011.7N 123.2E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 22, 00:0011.6N 120.8E20 ktTropical storm

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.