The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Faye (1992)

Tropical Storm Faye peaked at 55 kt in the Western Pacific between July 11, 1992 and July 18, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Faye. 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
Western Pacific
Dates
July 11, 1992 to July 18, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
WP061992

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 11, 12:007.1N 140.2E15 ktNot reported
Jul 11, 18:007.4N 139.1E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 00:007.8N 137.9E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 06:008.2N 136.6E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 12:008.6N 135.2E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 18:009.1N 133.9E15 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 00:009.8N 132.4E15 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 06:0010.7N 130.9E15 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 12:0011.8N 129.6E15 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 18:0012.9N 128.3E15 ktNot reported
Jul 14, 00:0013.9N 127.4E20 ktNot reported
Jul 14, 06:0014.8N 126.5E20 ktNot reported
Jul 14, 12:0015.8N 125.5E20 ktNot reported
Jul 14, 18:0016.7N 124.4E25 ktNot reported
Jul 15, 00:0017.3N 123.1E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0017.9N 121.8E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0018.3N 120.4E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0018.6N 119.0E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0018.9N 117.6E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0019.2N 116.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0019.5N 115.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0019.7N 114.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0020.2N 113.8E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0020.8N 113.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 12:0021.3N 113.8E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 18:0021.8N 113.8E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 00:0022.3N 113.8E55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 06:0023.0N 114.3E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0023.7N 114.9E30 kt1002 mbTropical 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.