The 1990 season

Hurricane Odile (1990)

Hurricane Odile reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 23, 1990 and October 2, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Odile, 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 23, 1990 to October 2, 1990
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 841 km (523 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
18.4
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP191990

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 23, 12:0012.5N 108.5W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Sep 23, 18:0012.8N 109.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 00:0012.8N 110.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 06:0012.8N 111.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0013.0N 112.6W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0013.1N 113.6W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0013.2N 114.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 06:0013.4N 115.8W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 12:0013.6N 117.0W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 25, 18:0013.9N 118.3W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 00:0014.3N 119.6W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 06:0014.7N 120.9W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 12:0015.2N 122.1W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 26, 18:0015.7N 123.4W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 00:0016.3N 124.5W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 06:0017.0N 125.6W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 12:0017.7N 126.6W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 27, 18:0018.3N 127.2W115 kt946 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 00:0018.9N 127.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 06:0019.5N 128.2W95 kt963 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 12:0020.1N 128.6W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 28, 18:0020.6N 128.7W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 00:0021.0N 128.7W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Sep 29, 06:0021.2N 128.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 12:0021.3N 128.8W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 29, 18:0021.2N 129.0W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 00:0020.9N 129.3W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 30, 06:0020.5N 129.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 12:0019.9N 130.0W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 18:0019.5N 130.5W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 00:0019.2N 131.1W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 06:0018.9N 131.8W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 12:0018.5N 132.7W25 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Oct 1, 18:0018.2N 133.6W20 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Oct 2, 00:0017.9N 134.6W20 kt1012 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.