The 1992 season

Hurricane Darby (1992)

Hurricane Darby reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 2, 1992 and July 10, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 968 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Darby, 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
July 2, 1992 to July 10, 1992
Peak strength
Category 3, 105 kt (121 mph)
Lowest pressure
968 mb (28.59 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 373 km (232 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.5
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP051992

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
Jul 2, 12:0012.5N 95.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 2, 18:0012.3N 95.9W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 00:0012.2N 96.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 06:0012.1N 97.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 3, 12:0011.8N 98.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0011.5N 99.3W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0011.3N 100.1W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0011.8N 101.0W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 12:0012.8N 102.0W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 18:0013.9N 103.5W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 5, 00:0015.0N 105.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 06:0015.9N 106.9W75 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 12:0016.8N 108.5W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 5, 18:0017.8N 110.0W95 kt976 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 00:0018.8N 111.5W100 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 06:0019.9N 113.0W105 kt968 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 12:0020.9N 114.6W100 kt968 mbHurricane
Jul 6, 18:0021.8N 116.1W95 kt969 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 00:0022.7N 117.6W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 06:0023.4N 119.0W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 12:0023.9N 120.3W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Jul 7, 18:0024.2N 121.5W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Jul 8, 00:0024.5N 122.4W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 06:0025.0N 123.2W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 12:0025.5N 124.0W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 8, 18:0026.0N 124.8W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 00:0026.6N 125.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 06:0027.1N 125.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 12:0027.7N 126.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 18:0028.4N 126.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 10, 00:0029.1N 126.4W25 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.