The 1992 season

Typhoon Eli (1992)

Typhoon Eli reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between July 5, 1992 and July 14, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 965 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Eli, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
July 5, 1992 to July 14, 1992
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
965 mb (28.50 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.7
Identifier
WP051992

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Jul 8, 00:00 UTC

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 5, 18:007.2N 155.9E15 ktNot reported
Jul 6, 00:007.6N 154.5E15 ktNot reported
Jul 6, 06:007.9N 153.1E15 ktNot reported
Jul 6, 12:008.2N 151.7E15 ktNot reported
Jul 6, 18:008.6N 150.4E15 ktNot reported
Jul 7, 00:009.0N 149.1E20 ktNot reported
Jul 7, 06:009.4N 147.9E20 ktNot reported
Jul 7, 12:009.8N 146.6E20 ktNot reported
Jul 7, 18:0010.3N 145.3E20 ktNot reported
Jul 8, 00:0011.0N 144.0E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jul 8, 06:0011.8N 142.5E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jul 8, 12:0012.7N 140.8E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jul 8, 18:0013.0N 138.9E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Jul 9, 00:0013.3N 137.0E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 06:0013.5N 135.1E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 12:0013.6N 133.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 9, 18:0013.9N 131.3E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0014.2N 129.5E45 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0014.6N 127.7E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0015.1N 125.9E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0015.5N 124.1E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0015.9N 122.3E75 kt965 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0016.2N 120.5E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0016.6N 118.8E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0016.9N 117.2E65 kt975 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0017.2N 115.8E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 06:0017.5N 114.5E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 12:0017.9N 113.2E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 18:0018.4N 111.9E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0019.0N 110.6E70 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0019.6N 109.3E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0020.2N 108.1E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0020.9N 106.9E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:0021.7N 105.9E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0021.0N 103.0E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0021.0N 101.5E1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0021.5N 99.5ETropical storm

Other Western 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.