The 1990 season

Hurricane Iselle (1990)

Hurricane Iselle reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 20, 1990 and July 30, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 958 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Iselle, 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 20, 1990 to July 30, 1990
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
958 mb (28.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 356 km (221 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
21.9
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP101990

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 20, 12:0010.0N 96.1W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 20, 18:0010.3N 97.8W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 00:0010.7N 98.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 06:0011.2N 99.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0011.8N 100.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0012.4N 101.0W45 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0013.1N 101.7W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0013.6N 102.3W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0014.0N 103.0W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0014.4N 103.6W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 00:0014.8N 104.2W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 06:0015.3N 104.8W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 12:0015.7N 105.5W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 18:0016.0N 106.2W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 00:0016.3N 106.9W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 06:0016.6N 107.6W95 kt962 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 12:0017.0N 108.3W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 18:0017.5N 109.0W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 00:0018.1N 109.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 06:0018.7N 110.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 12:0019.2N 111.7W105 kt958 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 18:0019.7N 112.7W105 kt958 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 00:0020.2N 113.6W105 kt958 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 06:0020.8N 114.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 12:0021.4N 115.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 18:0022.0N 116.5W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 00:0022.5N 117.5W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 06:0022.9N 118.4W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 12:0023.4N 119.2W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 27, 18:0023.8N 119.9W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 00:0024.3N 120.5W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 06:0024.8N 121.0W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 12:0025.2N 121.4W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 18:0025.5N 121.6W55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0025.5N 121.6W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0025.6N 121.7W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0025.6N 121.7W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0025.6N 121.7W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0025.6N 121.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 06:0025.5N 121.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 30, 12:0025.4N 122.1W25 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.