The 1992 season

Hurricane Estelle (1992)

Hurricane Estelle reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between July 9, 1992 and July 17, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 943 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Estelle, 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 9, 1992 to July 17, 1992
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
943 mb (27.85 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 907 km (564 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
18.7
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP061992

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 9, 00:0011.7N 108.4W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 06:0012.1N 109.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 12:0012.3N 110.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 9, 18:0012.6N 111.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 00:0012.7N 112.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 06:0012.6N 113.4W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 12:0012.3N 114.4W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 10, 18:0012.0N 115.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 00:0011.8N 116.3W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 06:0011.9N 117.2W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jul 11, 12:0012.1N 118.1W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 11, 18:0012.6N 118.9W105 kt957 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 00:0013.3N 119.5W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 06:0013.8N 120.2W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 12:0014.3N 120.7W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 18:0014.9N 121.2W105 kt957 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 00:0015.4N 121.5W95 kt966 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 06:0015.8N 121.7W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 12:0016.3N 122.0W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 18:0016.8N 122.3W120 kt943 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0017.3N 122.6W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0018.0N 122.9W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 12:0018.8N 123.4W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 18:0019.7N 123.9W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 00:0020.6N 124.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0021.5N 124.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0022.1N 125.4W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0022.6N 126.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0023.0N 126.7W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0023.3N 127.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0023.5N 128.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 18:0023.6N 128.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 00:0023.5N 129.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 06:0023.5N 130.6W25 kt1009 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.