The 1990 season

Hurricane Nana (1990)

Hurricane Nana reached Category 1 in the North Atlantic between October 16, 1990 and October 21, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Nana, 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
North Atlantic
Dates
October 16, 1990 to October 21, 1990
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 504 km (313 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.2
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
AL161990

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
Oct 16, 00:0022.2N 60.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 16, 06:0022.3N 60.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 16, 12:0022.3N 61.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 16, 18:0022.1N 62.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0022.1N 62.5W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0022.1N 62.8W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0022.4N 63.2W55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0022.8N 63.5W65 kt995 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 00:0023.4N 63.6W70 kt990 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 06:0024.1N 63.8W75 kt990 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 12:0025.0N 64.2W75 kt994 mbHurricane
Oct 18, 18:0026.1N 64.9W70 kt994 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 00:0027.1N 65.7W65 kt993 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 06:0027.9N 66.3W70 kt992 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 12:0028.5N 66.9W75 kt989 mbHurricane
Oct 19, 18:0028.9N 66.5W70 kt991 mbHurricane
Oct 20, 00:0029.2N 66.2W60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0029.5N 65.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0029.6N 65.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0029.3N 65.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0028.8N 64.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 06:0028.8N 64.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0027.7N 64.9W20 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other North Atlantic 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.