The 1990 season

Hurricane Marie (1990)

Hurricane Marie reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 7, 1990 and September 21, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 944 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Marie, 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
September 7, 1990 to September 21, 1990
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
944 mb (27.88 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 324 km (201 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
33.1
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP161990

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
Sep 7, 12:0012.0N 122.0W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0012.2N 123.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 00:0012.4N 124.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 06:0012.8N 125.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 12:0013.2N 126.3W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0013.6N 127.2W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0014.0N 128.0W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0014.3N 128.6W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0014.6N 129.1W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0014.8N 129.5W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0014.9N 129.9W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0015.0N 130.4W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0015.0N 131.0W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0014.9N 131.5W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0014.8N 132.1W120 kt945 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0014.7N 132.8W120 kt944 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0014.8N 133.5W120 kt946 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0015.0N 134.2W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0015.3N 134.9W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0015.6N 135.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0016.0N 136.0W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0016.3N 136.6W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0016.7N 137.1W90 kt973 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0017.0N 137.7W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0017.3N 138.2W95 kt963 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 18:0017.4N 138.7W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0017.5N 139.2W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0017.4N 139.6W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0017.5N 140.1W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0017.4N 140.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0017.3N 141.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0017.0N 142.7W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0016.7N 143.6W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0016.6N 144.6W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 00:0016.6N 145.7W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 06:0016.7N 146.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 12:0016.9N 147.7W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 16, 18:0017.2N 148.5W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 00:0017.6N 149.5W70 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 17, 06:0017.9N 150.3W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0018.2N 151.0W50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0018.0N 151.5W50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0017.8N 151.9W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0017.3N 152.5W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 12:0016.8N 153.1W55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0016.4N 153.7W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 19, 00:0016.2N 154.5W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0016.0N 155.2W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 12:0015.9N 155.8W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 18:0015.8N 156.4W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 00:0015.8N 157.0W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 06:0015.8N 157.8W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 12:0015.8N 158.6W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 20, 18:0015.9N 159.5W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 21, 00:0016.0N 160.2W25 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.