The 1993 season

Hurricane Eugene (1993)

Hurricane Eugene reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 15, 1993 and July 25, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Eugene, 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
July 15, 1993 to July 25, 1993
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
19.8
Fastest the center moved
26 kt (30 mph)
Identifier
EP061993

Radar at PHWA as it neared land, Jul 24, 12:00 UTC

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
Jul 15, 18:0011.3N 112.8W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 00:0011.4N 113.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:0011.4N 114.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:0011.4N 115.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0011.4N 115.9W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0011.4N 116.6W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0011.3N 117.2W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0011.2N 117.7W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0011.1N 118.1W85 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0011.2N 118.5W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0011.5N 118.9W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0012.1N 119.3W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0012.8N 119.8W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 00:0013.5N 120.5W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 06:0014.3N 121.3W100 kt956 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 12:0014.9N 122.3W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 18:0015.4N 123.6W110 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 00:0015.9N 124.8W105 kt950 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 06:0016.4N 126.2W100 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 12:0016.8N 127.6W100 kt959 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 18:0017.2N 128.9W95 kt961 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 00:0017.5N 130.2W95 kt962 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 06:0017.9N 131.3W90 kt964 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 12:0018.3N 132.4W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 18:0018.6N 133.8W85 kt977 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 00:0018.7N 135.3W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 06:0018.8N 136.8W60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0018.8N 138.3W45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0019.2N 139.8W40 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0019.5N 142.0W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0019.2N 144.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0019.1N 146.7W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0019.0N 148.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 00:0019.1N 151.0W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 06:0019.1N 153.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 12:0019.2N 155.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 18:0019.3N 158.0W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 25, 00:0019.4N 160.0W25 kt1010 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.