The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Blas (1992)

Tropical Storm Blas peaked at 35 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 22, 1992 and June 23, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 1004 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Blas, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1992 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
June 22, 1992 to June 23, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
1004 mb (29.65 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 738 km (459 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP031992

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
Jun 22, 12:0015.9N 111.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 18:0016.2N 111.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 00:0016.5N 112.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 06:0016.6N 113.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 12:0016.4N 114.7W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jun 23, 18:0016.1N 115.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1992

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.