The 1990 season

Tropical Storm Cristina (1990)

Tropical Storm Cristina peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 8, 1990 and June 16, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Cristina, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 8, 1990 to June 16, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 890 km (553 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.8
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP031990

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
Jun 8, 12:0011.6N 110.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 8, 18:0011.7N 110.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 9, 00:0011.7N 109.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 9, 06:0011.8N 109.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 9, 12:0012.3N 109.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0012.9N 110.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0013.3N 110.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0013.5N 110.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0013.6N 111.3W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0013.6N 111.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0013.6N 111.5W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0013.8N 111.6W45 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0014.0N 111.7W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0014.2N 112.5W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0014.6N 113.3W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0015.0N 113.9W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0015.3N 114.6W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0015.6N 115.4W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 00:0015.7N 116.2W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 06:0015.9N 117.1W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 12:0016.2N 118.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 13, 18:0016.5N 119.2W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 00:0017.0N 120.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jun 14, 06:0017.3N 120.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 14, 12:0017.5N 121.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 14, 18:0017.7N 121.6W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 00:0017.8N 122.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 06:0018.0N 122.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 12:0018.0N 122.9W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 15, 18:0017.8N 123.3W20 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 00:0017.7N 124.0W20 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Jun 16, 06:0017.6N 124.5W20 kt1011 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific 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.