The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Yolanda (1992)

Tropical Storm Yolanda peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 15, 1992 and October 22, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Yolanda. 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 15, 1992 to October 22, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 929 km (577 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.0
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP261992

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 15, 18:0010.8N 107.2W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 16, 00:0010.9N 109.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 16, 06:0010.9N 111.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 12:0011.2N 113.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 18:0011.5N 115.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 00:0012.0N 116.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 06:0012.5N 118.8W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 12:0013.0N 120.7W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 17, 18:0013.6N 122.6W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 00:0014.2N 124.5W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 06:0014.6N 126.3W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 12:0015.1N 127.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 18, 18:0015.7N 129.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 00:0016.2N 130.3W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 06:0016.8N 131.4W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 12:0017.5N 132.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0018.2N 133.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0018.9N 134.1W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0019.2N 134.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0019.3N 134.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0019.2N 135.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 00:0019.0N 135.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 06:0018.3N 135.7W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 12:0017.3N 136.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 21, 18:0016.5N 137.3W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 00:0016.3N 138.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 06:0016.2N 140.2W25 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 22, 12:0016.2N 141.8W25 kt1011 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.