The 1990 season

Hurricane Norbert (1990)

Hurricane Norbert reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between September 10, 1990 and September 19, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Norbert, 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 10, 1990 to September 19, 1990
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 624 km (388 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.0
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP171990

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 10, 00:0012.2N 111.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 06:0012.4N 111.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 12:0012.7N 111.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 10, 18:0013.1N 111.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0013.4N 112.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0013.7N 112.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0014.3N 112.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0015.3N 112.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0016.2N 112.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0017.0N 112.8W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0018.1N 113.5W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0019.3N 114.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0019.9N 115.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0020.1N 116.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0020.1N 117.5W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0020.4N 118.3W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0020.7N 119.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0020.8N 120.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0021.0N 121.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0021.2N 122.5W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 00:0021.1N 123.5W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 06:0021.1N 124.4W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 12:0021.0N 125.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 15, 18:0020.9N 126.2W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0020.8N 126.9W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0020.7N 127.4W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0020.7N 127.6W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0020.9N 127.7W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0021.3N 127.8W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0021.6N 128.0W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0021.9N 128.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0022.3N 128.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0022.7N 128.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0022.9N 128.7W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 12:0023.1N 128.8W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 18, 18:0023.2N 129.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 00:0023.2N 129.9W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 06:0023.1N 130.7W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 19, 12:0022.9N 131.6W20 kt1011 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.