The 1990 season

Hurricane Vance (1990)

Hurricane Vance reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between October 21, 1990 and October 31, 1990, with a lowest pressure of 975 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Vance, 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
October 21, 1990 to October 31, 1990
Peak strength
Category 2, 85 kt (98 mph)
Lowest pressure
975 mb (28.79 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 282 km (175 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.4
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP241990

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 21, 18:0011.3N 99.1W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:0011.1N 99.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0011.0N 99.6W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0011.3N 99.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 18:0011.8N 100.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 23, 00:0012.2N 100.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0012.5N 100.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0012.8N 101.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0013.2N 101.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0013.6N 102.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0014.1N 102.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0014.6N 103.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0015.2N 103.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0015.8N 104.7W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0016.3N 105.6W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0016.8N 106.5W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 25, 18:0017.4N 107.3W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 00:0017.9N 107.9W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 06:0018.3N 108.3W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 12:0018.6N 108.6W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 26, 18:0018.8N 108.7W85 kt976 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 00:0018.9N 108.6W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 06:0018.9N 108.5W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 12:0018.8N 108.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 27, 18:0018.5N 107.8W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0018.2N 107.5W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0017.9N 107.6W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0017.4N 107.9W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0016.9N 108.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0016.6N 108.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0016.6N 109.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0016.8N 109.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0017.2N 110.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0017.5N 110.8W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0017.6N 111.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 30, 12:0017.7N 112.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 30, 18:0017.9N 113.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 31, 00:0018.2N 113.9W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 31, 06:0018.6N 114.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 31, 12:0019.0N 115.0W20 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 31, 18:0019.4N 115.1W20 kt1010 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.