The 1992 season

Hurricane Paine (1992)

Hurricane Paine reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between September 11, 1992 and September 16, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Paine, 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 11, 1992 to September 16, 1992
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 552 km (343 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.6
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP191992

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 11, 00:0018.7N 112.8W30 kt1012 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 06:0018.5N 113.9W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 12:0018.3N 115.0W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 11, 18:0018.2N 116.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0018.1N 118.1W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0017.9N 119.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0017.6N 120.5W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0017.2N 121.0W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0017.0N 121.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0017.1N 122.0W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0017.4N 122.4W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0017.8N 122.8W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 00:0018.1N 123.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 06:0018.3N 123.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 12:0018.4N 123.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Sep 14, 18:0018.4N 122.9W60 kt988 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0018.4N 122.6W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0018.3N 122.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0018.1N 122.4W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0017.7N 122.2W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0017.3N 122.0W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0016.9N 121.8W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0016.7N 122.0W35 kt1009 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.