The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Howard (1992)

Tropical Storm Howard peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between July 26, 1992 and July 31, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Howard, 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 26, 1992 to July 31, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1175 km (730 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.8
Fastest the center moved
23 kt (26 mph)
Identifier
EP091992

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 26, 06:0013.1N 114.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 12:0013.4N 115.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 18:0013.6N 116.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 27, 00:0013.7N 117.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 27, 06:0013.7N 118.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 27, 12:0013.5N 119.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0013.3N 120.1W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 00:0013.0N 121.2W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 06:0012.7N 122.2W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0012.5N 123.2W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0012.4N 123.9W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0012.4N 124.7W50 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0012.6N 125.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0012.8N 126.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0013.1N 127.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0013.4N 129.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0013.7N 130.1W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0014.3N 131.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0015.0N 133.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 31, 00:0016.0N 135.0W20 ktNot reported

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.