The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Newton (1992)

Tropical Storm Newton peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 27, 1992 and August 31, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 999 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Newton, 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
August 27, 1992 to August 31, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
999 mb (29.50 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 903 km (561 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP161992

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 27, 12:0011.1N 107.3W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Aug 27, 18:0011.1N 108.5W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 00:0011.3N 109.9W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 28, 06:0011.7N 111.4W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0012.1N 112.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0012.3N 114.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0012.3N 116.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0012.4N 117.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0012.8N 118.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0013.0N 119.8W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0013.2N 121.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0013.4N 122.4W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0013.7N 123.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0014.1N 125.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0014.5N 127.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 06:0014.9N 129.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 12:0014.9N 130.9W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 18:0014.9N 132.5W25 kt1010 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.