Hurricanes

The 1992 season

126 tropical cyclones worldwide, from NOAA’s IBTrACS archive.

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Radar

Reflectivity now across the United States. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

Open the live radar with storms, cones and warnings

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Deaths and damage

2 of this season’s storms are on record as having killed someone, 30 people in all.

The figures come from the National Hurricane Center and from Wikidata, which have filled in only some storms; a storm with no figure here may still have killed.

North Atlantic

10 storms, 7 at tropical storm strength, 4 hurricanes, 1 major; accumulated cyclone energy 75.1.

Eastern Pacific

34 storms, 31 at tropical storm strength, 20 hurricanes, 13 major; accumulated cyclone energy 447.7.

Western Pacific

34 storms, 28 at tropical storm strength, 19 typhoons, 9 major; accumulated cyclone energy 338.8.

North Indian

11 storms, 9 at tropical storm strength, 1 at hurricane force, 0 major; accumulated cyclone energy 17.5.

South Indian

22 storms, 17 at tropical storm strength, 7 at hurricane force, 7 major; accumulated cyclone energy 159.8.

South Pacific

15 storms, 15 at tropical storm strength, 9 at hurricane force, 4 major; accumulated cyclone energy 173.5.

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.