The 1992 season

Hurricane Orlene (1992)

Hurricane Orlene reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 2, 1992 and September 14, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 934 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Orlene, 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
September 2, 1992 to September 14, 1992
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
934 mb (27.58 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 10 km (6 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
32.4
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP171992

Radar at PHWA as it neared land, Sep 14, 18:00 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 2, 18:009.9N 102.5W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 3, 00:0010.1N 103.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 06:0010.4N 105.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 12:0010.7N 106.4W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Sep 3, 18:0011.0N 107.9W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 4, 00:0011.2N 109.5W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Sep 4, 06:0011.4N 111.1W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Sep 4, 12:0011.6N 112.7W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Sep 4, 18:0011.9N 114.2W105 kt956 mbHurricane
Sep 5, 00:0012.1N 115.8W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Sep 5, 06:0012.5N 117.3W115 kt947 mbHurricane
Sep 5, 12:0012.9N 118.8W120 kt943 mbHurricane
Sep 5, 18:0013.4N 120.3W120 kt939 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 00:0014.0N 121.7W125 kt936 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 06:0014.4N 123.1W125 kt934 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 12:0014.9N 124.5W125 kt935 mbHurricane
Sep 6, 18:0015.4N 125.7W125 kt936 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 00:0015.9N 126.9W125 kt937 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 06:0016.4N 128.0W120 kt940 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 12:0016.9N 129.1W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Sep 7, 18:0017.4N 130.1W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 00:0017.8N 131.1W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 06:0018.2N 132.2W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 12:0018.5N 133.1W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 8, 18:0018.8N 133.9W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 00:0019.1N 134.4W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 06:0019.4N 134.7W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 12:0019.7N 134.9W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Sep 9, 18:0020.2N 135.1W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 00:0020.6N 135.3W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 06:0021.0N 135.5W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 12:0021.4N 135.8W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Sep 10, 18:0021.8N 136.1W80 kt977 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 00:0022.2N 136.4W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 06:0022.5N 136.7W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 11, 12:0022.7N 137.2W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0022.8N 137.9W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0022.7N 138.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0022.6N 140.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0022.8N 141.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Sep 12, 18:0022.7N 142.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 00:0022.5N 144.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 06:0022.1N 146.6W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 12:0021.4N 148.5W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 13, 18:0020.8N 149.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 00:0020.2N 151.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 06:0019.7N 152.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 12:0019.3N 154.1W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 14, 18:0019.2N 155.2W25 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.