The 1993 season

Typhoon Becky (1993)

Typhoon Becky reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between September 9, 1993 and September 18, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Becky, 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 9, 1993 to September 18, 1993
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.9
Identifier
WP221993

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 9, 18:006.0N 150.0E15 ktNot reported
Sep 10, 00:006.4N 147.7E15 ktNot reported
Sep 10, 06:006.9N 145.8E15 ktNot reported
Sep 10, 12:007.3N 144.4E15 ktNot reported
Sep 10, 18:007.8N 143.0E15 ktNot reported
Sep 11, 00:008.1N 141.8E15 ktNot reported
Sep 11, 06:008.3N 140.7E15 ktNot reported
Sep 11, 12:008.6N 140.0E15 ktNot reported
Sep 11, 18:009.0N 139.1E15 ktNot reported
Sep 12, 00:009.3N 138.2E15 ktNot reported
Sep 12, 06:009.8N 137.2E15 ktNot reported
Sep 12, 12:0010.5N 135.8E15 ktNot reported
Sep 12, 18:0011.2N 134.6E20 ktNot reported
Sep 13, 00:0011.8N 133.3E20 ktNot reported
Sep 13, 06:0012.4N 132.0E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 12:0013.4N 130.6E20 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 13, 18:0014.3N 129.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 00:0015.1N 128.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 06:0016.0N 127.3E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 12:0016.7N 126.4E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 14, 18:0017.4N 125.5E25 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 00:0017.9N 124.5E30 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 06:0018.3N 123.3E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 12:0018.5N 122.2E40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 15, 18:0018.8N 121.0E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 00:0018.9N 119.7E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 06:0019.4N 118.3E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 12:0020.1N 116.9E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 16, 18:0020.8N 115.3E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 00:0021.5N 113.7E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 06:0022.1N 112.2E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 12:0022.7N 110.7E50 kt992 mbTropical storm
Sep 17, 18:0023.2N 109.4E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 00:0023.6N 108.3E25 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 06:0023.9N 107.2E20 kt1004 mbMixed
Sep 18, 12:0024.1N 106.3E20 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 18, 18:0024.2N 105.3E20 kt1006 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.