The 1992 season

Hurricane Iniki (1992)

Hurricane Iniki reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 5, 1992 and September 13, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 938 mb, and made landfall.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Iniki. 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
September 5, 1992 to September 13, 1992
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
938 mb (27.70 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
16.5
Fastest the center moved
26 kt (30 mph)
Identifier
EP181992

Radar at PHKI as it neared land, Sep 12, 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
Sep 5, 06:0011.7N 131.5W25 ktNot reported
Sep 5, 12:0011.7N 133.0W25 ktNot reported
Sep 5, 18:0011.9N 133.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 00:0011.9N 135.9W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 06:0012.0N 137.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 12:0012.1N 138.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 6, 18:0012.2N 139.8W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 00:0012.3N 141.1W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 06:0012.3N 141.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 12:0012.2N 142.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 7, 18:0012.1N 143.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Sep 8, 00:0012.0N 144.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 06:0012.0N 146.0W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 12:0012.1N 147.5W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 8, 18:0012.3N 149.0W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 00:0012.4N 150.2W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0012.7N 151.6W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0013.0N 152.9W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0013.4N 154.3W80 kt984 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0013.8N 155.5W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0014.3N 156.9W90 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0014.7N 157.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0015.2N 158.6W100 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0015.9N 159.3W110 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0016.8N 159.8W115 kt947 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0018.2N 160.2W120 kt939 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 18:0019.5N 160.0W125 kt938 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 00:0021.5N 159.8W115 kt945 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 06:0023.7N 159.4W100 kt959 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 12:0025.7N 159.0W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 12, 18:0028.1N 158.9W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 00:0030.4N 158.8W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 06:0033.0N 158.7W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Sep 13, 12:0035.0N 158.5W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0036.7N 158.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm

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.