The 1990 season

Tropical Storm Cesar (1990)

Tropical Storm Cesar peaked at 45 kt in the North Atlantic between July 31, 1990 and August 7, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cesar, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1990 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
North Atlantic
Dates
July 31, 1990 to August 7, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 643 km (400 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.4
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
AL041990

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
Jul 31, 00:0010.1N 22.2W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 06:0010.4N 23.3W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 12:0010.8N 24.5W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 18:0011.1N 25.6W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 00:0011.5N 26.9W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 06:0012.2N 28.3W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 12:0013.4N 29.7W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Aug 1, 18:0014.6N 31.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 2, 00:0015.4N 32.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0016.1N 33.5W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0016.7N 34.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0017.4N 35.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0018.1N 37.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0018.8N 38.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0019.3N 39.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0019.8N 40.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0020.4N 41.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0021.2N 42.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0022.0N 43.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0022.8N 44.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0023.6N 44.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 06:0024.4N 45.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 12:0025.3N 45.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 18:0026.1N 46.3W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 00:0026.6N 46.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 06:0026.8N 46.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 12:0026.9N 46.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 18:0026.9N 46.6W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 00:0026.9N 46.4W25 kt1013 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 06:0026.9N 46.3W25 kt1014 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0026.8N 46.3W25 kt1016 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic storms of 1990

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.