The 1990 season

Tropical Storm Lewis (1990)

Tropical Storm Lewis peaked at 35 kt in the Western Pacific between April 27, 1990 and May 7, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 998 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Lewis, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
April 27, 1990 to May 7, 1990
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
998 mb (29.47 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 731 km (454 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Identifier
WP021990

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
Apr 27, 00:003.7N 152.2E15 ktNot reported
Apr 27, 06:004.1N 152.1E15 ktNot reported
Apr 27, 12:004.7N 152.0E20 ktNot reported
Apr 27, 18:005.3N 152.0E20 ktNot reported
Apr 28, 00:005.9N 152.1E25 ktDisturbance
Apr 28, 06:006.6N 152.0E25 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Apr 28, 12:007.3N 151.8E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Apr 28, 18:008.0N 151.4E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Apr 29, 00:008.7N 150.8E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Apr 29, 06:009.5N 150.6E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Apr 29, 12:0010.3N 150.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Apr 29, 18:0010.9N 151.0E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 30, 00:0011.2N 151.1E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 30, 06:0011.3N 151.2E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 30, 12:0011.4N 151.3E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Apr 30, 18:0011.7N 151.4E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 1, 00:0011.9N 151.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 1, 06:0012.2N 152.0E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 1, 12:0012.5N 152.2E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 1, 18:0012.9N 152.3E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 2, 00:0013.2N 152.3E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 2, 06:0013.5N 152.0E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 2, 12:0013.8N 151.7E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 2, 18:0014.3N 151.3E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 3, 00:0014.6N 150.7E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 3, 06:0014.8N 150.1E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 3, 12:0015.1N 149.5E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
May 3, 18:0015.4N 148.8E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
May 4, 00:0015.9N 148.2E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
May 4, 06:0016.3N 147.5E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
May 4, 12:0016.5N 146.6E20 ktNot reported
May 4, 18:0016.5N 145.6E20 ktNot reported
May 5, 00:0016.4N 144.4E20 ktNot reported
May 5, 06:0016.4N 143.2E20 ktNot reported
May 5, 12:0016.6N 142.0E20 ktNot reported
May 5, 18:0016.9N 140.9E15 ktNot reported
May 6, 00:0017.3N 139.7E15 ktNot reported
May 6, 06:0017.7N 138.4E15 ktNot reported
May 6, 12:0018.6N 136.9E15 ktNot reported
May 6, 18:0019.0N 135.5E15 ktNot reported
May 7, 00:0019.0N 134.2E15 ktNot reported

Other Western 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.