The 1993 season

Typhoon Abe (1993)

Typhoon Abe reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 7, 1993 and September 15, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 945 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Abe, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1993 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
September 7, 1993 to September 15, 1993
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
945 mb (27.91 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.4
Identifier
WP211993

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
Sep 7, 06:0017.3N 119.2E20 ktNot reported
Sep 7, 12:0017.6N 119.4E20 ktNot reported
Sep 7, 18:0017.8N 119.9E20 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 00:0017.7N 119.6E15 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 06:0017.8N 119.9E15 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 12:0017.9N 120.7E20 ktNot reported
Sep 8, 18:0018.1N 122.1E20 ktNot reported
Sep 9, 00:0018.4N 123.3E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 06:0018.9N 123.7E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 12:0019.2N 123.7E30 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 9, 18:0019.5N 123.8E35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 00:0019.8N 123.9E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 06:0019.9N 123.9E50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 12:0019.9N 123.6E55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 10, 18:0020.0N 123.3E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 00:0020.3N 123.0E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 06:0020.6N 122.6E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 12:0020.8N 122.0E80 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 11, 18:0020.9N 121.3E85 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 00:0021.0N 120.6E90 kt975 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 06:0021.1N 119.9E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 12:0021.2N 119.2E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 12, 18:0021.5N 118.7E100 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 00:0021.9N 118.3E105 kt950 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 06:0022.2N 118.0E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0022.4N 117.6E110 kt945 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0022.7N 117.0E100 kt955 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0023.1N 116.3E90 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0023.4N 115.3E70 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0023.7N 114.3E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0024.2N 113.2E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0024.7N 112.3E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0025.0N 111.0E1006 mbTropical storm

Other Western Pacific storms of 1993

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.