Super Typhoon Elsie (1992)

Basin

Western Pacific

Dates

October 27, 1992 to November 9, 1992

Peak strength

Category 5, 145 kt (167 mph)

Lowest pressure

915 mb (27.02 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 435 km (270 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

34.5

Identifier

WP281992

Radar at PGUA as it neared land, Nov 2, 18:00 UTC

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.

• Typhoon AxelWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 170 kt · 980 mb
• Typhoon BobbieWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 4120 kt · 940 mb
• Typhoon ChuckWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 180 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm DeannaWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm40 kt
• Typhoon EliWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 175 kt · 965 mb
• Tropical Storm FayeWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm55 kt · 1000 mb
• Typhoon GaryWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 165 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm HelenWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Depression25 kt
• Typhoon JanisWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 4115 kt · 935 mb
• Typhoon IrvingWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 180 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm LoisWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm40 kt · 996 mb
• Tropical Storm MarkWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm NinaWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm45 kt · 996 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1992 · 15 deathsTropical Depression25 kt
• Super Typhoon OmarWestern Pacific · 1992 · 15 deathsCat 4130 kt · 920 mb
• Tropical Storm PollyWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm50 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Depression PollyWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Depression
• Typhoon RyanWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 4115 kt · 945 mb
• Tropical Depression PollyWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Depression
• Typhoon SibylWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 3110 kt · 940 mb
• Typhoon TedWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 165 kt · 985 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Depression
• Tropical Storm ValWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm55 kt · 970 mb
• Super Typhoon YvetteWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 5155 kt · 915 mb
• Tropical Storm ZackWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Storm40 kt · 992 mb
• Typhoon AngelaWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 290 kt · 970 mb
• Typhoon BrianWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 295 kt · 950 mb
• Typhoon ColleenWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 180 kt · 980 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionWestern Pacific · 1992Tropical Depression25 kt
• Unnamed typhoonWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 170 kt · 994 mb
• Typhoon ForrestWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 4125 kt · 952 mb
• Typhoon HuntWestern Pacific · 1992Cat 4125 kt · 940 mb

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.

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.