The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Mark (1992)

Tropical Storm Mark peaked at 50 kt in the Western Pacific between August 13, 1992 and August 22, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mark, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
August 13, 1992 to August 22, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.5
Identifier
WP131992

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
Aug 13, 12:0016.9N 112.4E15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 18:0017.1N 113.2E15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 00:0017.4N 114.0E15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 06:0017.7N 114.9E15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 12:0018.0N 115.8E15 ktNot reported
Aug 14, 18:0018.4N 116.6E20 ktNot reported
Aug 15, 00:0018.8N 117.2E20 ktTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0019.3N 117.5E20 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0019.7N 117.5E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0020.2N 117.4E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0020.6N 117.2E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0020.8N 116.9E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0021.1N 116.9E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0021.4N 117.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0021.6N 117.5E45 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0021.9N 117.6E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0022.1N 117.8E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0022.4N 117.9E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0022.7N 117.9E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0023.1N 117.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0023.4N 117.8E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0023.7N 117.6E40 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0023.8N 117.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0023.8N 116.7E35 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0023.6N 116.3E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0023.2N 116.1E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0022.9N 115.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0022.6N 115.8E25 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 12:0022.3N 115.6E25 ktNot reported
Aug 20, 18:0022.1N 115.3E25 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 00:0021.9N 114.9E20 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 06:0021.6N 114.3E20 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 12:0021.5N 113.5E20 ktNot reported
Aug 21, 18:0021.8N 112.7E20 ktNot reported
Aug 22, 00:0022.4N 112.2E15 ktNot reported

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.