The 1990 season

Hurricane Lowell (1990)

Hurricane Lowell reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 23, 1990 and September 1, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 986 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Lowell, 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
August 23, 1990 to September 1, 1990
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
986 mb (29.12 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 179 km (111 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.6
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP151990

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 23, 18:0014.0N 96.5W20 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 00:0014.1N 97.6W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 06:0014.4N 98.7W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0014.9N 99.9W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 24, 18:0015.4N 101.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 00:0015.9N 102.6W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 06:0016.3N 103.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 12:0017.0N 104.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0017.7N 106.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0018.3N 107.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0018.7N 108.5W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0019.0N 109.5W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0019.3N 110.5W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0019.4N 111.5W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0019.5N 112.5W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 12:0019.5N 113.6W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 18:0019.4N 114.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 00:0019.1N 116.2W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 06:0018.7N 117.5W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 12:0018.5N 118.7W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 18:0018.2N 119.8W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0018.0N 120.7W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0017.9N 121.6W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0018.0N 122.5W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0018.3N 123.4W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0018.7N 124.3W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0019.2N 125.3W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0019.5N 126.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0019.7N 127.7W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0019.9N 128.8W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0020.0N 130.0W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0020.1N 131.2W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0020.1N 132.3W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 00:0020.0N 133.5W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 06:0019.9N 134.7W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 1, 12:0019.9N 136.2W20 kt1014 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.