The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Beatriz (1993)

Tropical Storm Beatriz peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between June 18, 1993 and June 20, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 995 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Beatriz, 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 18, 1993 to June 20, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
995 mb (29.38 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP021993

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.

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Jun 19, 18:00Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, Mexico, 56 km away15.9N 97.8W55 kt (63 mph)995 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 18, 06:0013.4N 95.4W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 18, 12:0013.6N 95.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 18, 18:0013.9N 96.2W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 00:0014.3N 96.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0014.8N 96.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0015.2N 97.3W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:00 landfall15.9N 97.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0017.0N 98.0W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern 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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.