The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Zack (1992)

Tropical Storm Zack peaked at 40 kt in the Western Pacific between October 5, 1992 and October 17, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Zack, 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
Western Pacific
Dates
October 5, 1992 to October 17, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1495 km (929 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.9
Identifier
WP221992

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 5, 00:007.8N 174.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 5, 06:007.8N 174.1E15 ktNot reported
Oct 5, 12:007.9N 173.3E15 ktNot reported
Oct 5, 18:008.0N 172.5E15 ktNot reported
Oct 6, 00:008.2N 171.7E15 ktNot reported
Oct 6, 06:008.5N 170.9E15 ktNot reported
Oct 6, 12:008.9N 170.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 6, 18:009.2N 169.1E20 ktNot reported
Oct 7, 00:009.5N 168.0E20 ktNot reported
Oct 7, 06:009.5N 166.9E25 ktNot reported
Oct 7, 12:009.5N 165.8E30 ktNot reported
Oct 7, 18:009.6N 164.7E30 ktNot reported
Oct 8, 00:009.7N 163.7E25 ktNot reported
Oct 8, 06:009.8N 162.7E25 ktNot reported
Oct 8, 12:009.9N 161.8E25 ktNot reported
Oct 8, 18:009.9N 160.9E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 00:009.9N 160.0E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 06:009.7N 159.1E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 12:009.9N 158.3E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 9, 18:0010.6N 158.3E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 00:0011.4N 158.8E35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 06:0012.2N 159.5E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 12:0013.1N 160.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 10, 18:0014.0N 160.8E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 00:0015.0N 161.4E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 06:0016.2N 161.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 12:0017.3N 161.6E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 11, 18:0018.3N 161.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 00:0018.9N 160.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 06:0019.4N 159.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 12:0020.0N 158.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0020.9N 157.2E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 00:0021.7N 156.2E30 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 06:0022.5N 155.2E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 12:0023.3N 154.2E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 13, 18:0024.0N 153.5E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 00:0024.4N 153.2E40 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 06:0024.8N 153.0E35 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 12:0025.2N 152.9E30 kt992 mbTropical storm
Oct 14, 18:0025.6N 152.9E30 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 00:0026.0N 152.9E25 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 06:0026.4N 152.9E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 12:0026.8N 153.1E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 15, 18:0027.2N 153.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 16, 00:0027.5N 153.5E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Oct 16, 06:0027.9N 153.8E25 kt1004 mbMixed
Oct 16, 12:0028.5N 154.4E20 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 18:0029.1N 155.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 00:0029.9N 156.3E20 ktNot reported

Other Western 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.