The 1990 season

Hurricane Hernan (1990)

Hurricane Hernan reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between July 19, 1990 and July 31, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 928 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Hernan, 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 19, 1990 to July 31, 1990
Peak strength
Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)
Lowest pressure
928 mb (27.40 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 775 km (482 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
30.6
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP091990

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 19, 12:0012.0N 106.5W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Jul 19, 18:0012.0N 107.4W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 00:0012.1N 108.3W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 06:0012.2N 109.3W30 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 12:0012.3N 109.9W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0012.6N 110.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0012.9N 111.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0013.3N 112.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0013.8N 112.7W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0014.3N 113.2W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 00:0014.8N 113.7W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 06:0015.3N 114.2W90 kt965 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 12:0015.7N 114.8W105 kt954 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 18:0016.2N 115.3W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 00:0016.6N 115.9W125 kt939 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 06:0017.0N 116.5W130 kt933 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 12:0017.3N 117.2W135 kt929 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 18:0017.5N 117.9W135 kt928 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 00:0017.6N 118.5W130 kt929 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 06:0017.8N 119.0W125 kt933 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 12:0017.9N 119.6W120 kt939 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 18:0018.0N 120.1W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 00:0018.2N 120.7W115 kt949 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 06:0018.3N 121.3W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 12:0018.4N 121.9W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 18:0018.5N 122.6W110 kt954 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 00:0018.7N 123.3W105 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 06:0019.0N 124.0W105 kt956 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 12:0019.2N 124.8W100 kt961 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 18:0019.4N 125.7W90 kt967 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 00:0019.6N 126.5W80 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 06:0019.8N 127.3W75 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 12:0019.9N 128.2W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 18:0020.0N 129.0W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 00:0020.0N 129.9W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0020.1N 130.9W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0020.2N 131.8W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0020.4N 132.7W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0020.7N 133.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0021.0N 134.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0021.5N 135.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0022.0N 136.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0022.8N 136.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0023.6N 137.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0024.5N 137.8W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 18:0025.3N 138.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0026.2N 138.5W25 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.