The 1992 season

Hurricane Dan (1992)

Hurricane Dan reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between October 23, 1992 and November 5, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Dan. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 23, 1992 to November 5, 1992
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1503 km (934 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.6
Identifier
WP271992

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 23, 12:009.6N 173.2W20 ktTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:009.8N 174.0W20 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0010.0N 174.8W25 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0010.2N 175.7W25 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0010.4N 176.6W25 ktTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0010.7N 177.6W25 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0011.0N 178.7W30 ktTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0011.7N 179.5W30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0012.6N 179.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 18:0013.3N 178.7E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 00:0013.7N 177.5E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0014.2N 176.0E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0014.7N 174.3E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0015.2N 172.6E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0015.7N 171.1E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0016.4N 169.9E80 kt965 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0017.1N 168.9E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0017.8N 168.0E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0018.6N 167.1E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0019.5N 166.2E110 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0020.3N 165.4E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0021.0N 164.9E100 kt940 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0021.6N 164.6E100 kt945 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0022.0N 164.5E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0022.1N 164.3E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0022.0N 164.1E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0021.7N 163.6E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0021.3N 162.8E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0020.7N 161.7E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0020.2N 160.5E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0019.7N 159.2E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0019.3N 157.8E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 12:0019.1N 156.2E80 kt955 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 18:0019.2N 154.5E85 kt955 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 00:0019.6N 152.9E95 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 06:0020.1N 151.4E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 12:0020.8N 150.2E110 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 1, 18:0021.6N 149.3E110 kt935 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 00:0022.4N 148.8E105 kt940 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 06:0023.1N 148.9E105 kt945 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 12:0023.9N 149.6E100 kt950 mbTropical storm
Nov 2, 18:0024.9N 150.8E90 kt955 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 00:0026.2N 152.6E80 kt960 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 06:0027.8N 154.7E70 kt965 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 12:0029.4N 156.9E60 kt970 mbTropical storm
Nov 3, 18:0031.1N 159.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Nov 4, 00:0033.0N 161.0E50 kt990 mbMixed
Nov 4, 06:0032.9N 162.7E1000 mbMixed
Nov 4, 12:0033.5N 164.3E1008 mbMixed
Nov 4, 18:0033.5N 166.5E1012 mbExtratropical
Nov 5, 00:0033.0N 168.5E1012 mbExtratropical

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.