The 1992 season

Hurricane Winifred (1992)

Hurricane Winifred reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between October 6, 1992 and October 10, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Winifred, 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
October 6, 1992 to October 10, 1992
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.0
Fastest the center moved
21 kt (24 mph)
Identifier
EP241992

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 9, 20:30Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, 5 km away19.1N 104.3W85 kt (98 mph)975 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 6, 12:0011.0N 97.0W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 6, 18:0011.7N 98.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 00:0012.2N 99.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 7, 06:0012.5N 100.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0012.9N 101.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0013.4N 102.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0013.9N 102.4W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0014.4N 102.9W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0014.9N 103.3W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 18:0015.4N 103.6W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 00:0016.0N 104.0W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0016.7N 104.2W95 kt964 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0017.5N 104.3W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0018.6N 104.4W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 20:30 landfall19.1N 104.3W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0020.0N 103.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0021.7N 102.4W25 kt1009 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.