The 1990 season

Tropical Storm Edouard (1990)

Tropical Storm Edouard peaked at 40 kt in the North Atlantic between August 2, 1990 and August 13, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Edouard, 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
August 2, 1990 to August 13, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 623 km (387 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
AL061990

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 2, 18:0038.0N 23.0W30 kt1015 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 3, 00:0038.3N 23.0W30 kt1013 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 3, 06:0038.8N 23.1W30 kt1010 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 3, 12:0039.2N 23.3W35 kt1009 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0039.5N 23.9W40 kt1006 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0039.7N 25.3W40 kt1005 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0039.4N 27.3W35 kt1006 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0038.8N 29.0W35 kt1006 mbSubtropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0038.1N 30.1W30 kt1007 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 5, 00:0037.6N 30.8W30 kt1007 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 5, 06:0037.3N 31.6W30 kt1007 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 5, 12:0037.1N 32.5W30 kt1007 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 5, 18:0037.0N 33.1W25 kt1009 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 6, 00:0037.0N 33.4W25 kt1010 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 6, 06:0037.1N 33.5W25 kt1010 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 6, 12:0037.2N 33.5W25 kt1010 mbSubtropical depression
Aug 6, 18:0037.5N 33.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 00:0037.5N 33.7W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 06:0037.4N 33.9W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0037.1N 34.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 18:0036.9N 34.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 00:0036.9N 34.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 06:0037.0N 33.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 12:0037.1N 33.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 8, 18:0037.4N 32.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0037.8N 30.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0038.5N 29.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0039.2N 28.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 18:0039.6N 28.1W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 00:0039.7N 27.7W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0039.6N 27.1W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0039.3N 26.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 18:0039.1N 25.0W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 00:0039.0N 23.8W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 06:0039.0N 22.9W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 12:0039.1N 22.0W30 kt1010 mbExtratropical
Aug 11, 18:0039.0N 21.2W30 kt1010 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 00:0038.9N 20.5W30 kt1010 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 06:0038.8N 19.9W30 kt1010 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 12:0038.5N 19.3W30 kt1010 mbExtratropical
Aug 12, 18:0038.1N 18.5W25 kt1011 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 00:0037.7N 17.8W20 kt1012 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 06:0037.6N 17.1W20 kt1012 mbExtratropical
Aug 13, 12:0038.0N 16.6W20 kt1014 mbExtratropical

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.