The 1990 season

Hurricane Genevieve (1990)

Hurricane Genevieve reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between July 10, 1990 and July 18, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Genevieve, 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
July 10, 1990 to July 18, 1990
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 394 km (245 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.7
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP081990

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 10, 00:0010.2N 94.5W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 06:0010.2N 95.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 12:0010.9N 96.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 18:0011.6N 97.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 00:0012.4N 98.8W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 06:0012.9N 99.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 12:0013.4N 101.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 18:0013.8N 102.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0014.2N 103.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0014.7N 104.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0015.4N 106.0W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0016.1N 107.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0016.9N 108.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 06:0017.7N 109.3W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 12:0018.2N 110.3W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 18:0018.6N 111.3W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0018.9N 112.2W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0019.0N 113.1W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 12:0019.2N 113.9W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 18:0019.4N 114.8W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 00:0019.7N 115.5W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0020.0N 116.3W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 12:0020.2N 117.0W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 18:0020.5N 117.8W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 00:0021.0N 118.5W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 06:0021.5N 119.2W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 12:0022.0N 119.9W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 18:0022.5N 120.6W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 00:0023.1N 121.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0023.8N 121.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0024.5N 122.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0025.1N 122.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0025.5N 123.1W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 06:0025.9N 123.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 12:0026.3N 123.7W25 kt1010 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.