The 1992 season

Tropical Storm Zeke (1992)

Tropical Storm Zeke peaked at 45 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 25, 1992 and October 30, 1992, with a lowest pressure of 1000 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Zeke, 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 25, 1992 to October 30, 1992
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
1000 mb (29.53 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 379 km (235 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.0
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP271992

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 25, 12:0012.6N 111.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 18:0013.1N 112.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 00:0013.4N 113.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0013.8N 113.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0014.3N 114.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0014.9N 115.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0015.5N 116.1W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0016.0N 116.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 27, 12:0016.5N 116.7W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 27, 18:0017.0N 116.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 28, 00:0017.4N 116.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0017.7N 116.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0018.0N 116.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0018.3N 116.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 00:0018.5N 116.4W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 06:0018.8N 116.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 12:0019.1N 115.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Oct 29, 18:0019.3N 114.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 00:0019.5N 114.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0019.6N 113.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0019.7N 112.4W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 30, 18:0019.8N 111.5W25 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.