The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Xavier (1992)

Tropical Storm Xavier peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 13, 1992 and October 15, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Xavier. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
October 13, 1992 to October 15, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 966 km (600 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP251992

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
Oct 13, 18:0010.2N 106.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 14, 00:0010.2N 107.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0010.3N 108.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0010.2N 110.0W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0010.2N 111.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 15, 00:0010.3N 112.5W25 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.