The 1992 season

Hurricane Celia (1992)

Hurricane Celia reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between June 22, 1992 and July 4, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Celia, 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 July 4, 1992
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 269 km (167 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
26.9
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP041992

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, 12:0011.5N 91.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 22, 18:0011.4N 92.8W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 00:0011.2N 93.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 06:0011.3N 94.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 12:0012.0N 95.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jun 23, 18:0012.3N 97.1W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 00:0012.7N 98.2W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 06:0012.9N 99.3W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 12:0013.0N 100.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jun 24, 18:0013.2N 101.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jun 25, 00:0013.4N 101.8W70 kt983 mbHurricane
Jun 25, 06:0013.7N 102.7W70 kt981 mbHurricane
Jun 25, 12:0013.8N 103.6W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Jun 25, 18:0013.9N 104.5W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Jun 26, 00:0014.0N 105.5W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Jun 26, 06:0014.2N 106.5W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jun 26, 12:0014.3N 107.4W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jun 26, 18:0014.4N 108.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jun 27, 00:0014.5N 109.6W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jun 27, 06:0014.7N 110.7W125 kt936 mbHurricane
Jun 27, 12:0014.9N 111.7W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Jun 27, 18:0015.2N 112.7W125 kt936 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 00:0015.5N 113.6W120 kt939 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 06:0015.8N 114.5W120 kt942 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 12:0016.1N 115.5W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 18:0016.5N 116.4W110 kt952 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 00:0017.0N 117.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 06:0017.3N 118.5W90 kt965 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 12:0017.4N 119.5W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jun 29, 18:0017.4N 120.4W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 00:0017.3N 121.2W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 06:0017.5N 122.2W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 12:0017.6N 123.1W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 18:0017.3N 123.8W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 00:0017.3N 124.7W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 06:0017.3N 125.4W75 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 12:0017.4N 126.1W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 18:0017.4N 126.9W65 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 00:0017.3N 127.6W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 06:0017.2N 128.2W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 12:0017.2N 128.8W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 18:0017.5N 129.4W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0017.6N 130.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 06:0017.8N 130.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 12:0018.1N 130.9W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 18:0018.6N 131.2W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 00:0019.2N 131.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 06:0019.7N 132.3W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 12:0020.1N 132.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 18:0020.3N 133.6W20 kt1010 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.