The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Hattie (1993)

Tropical Storm Hattie peaked at 50 kt in the Eastern Pacific between October 12, 1993 and October 26, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Hattie, 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
October 12, 1993 to October 26, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1392 km (865 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.5
Identifier
WP291993

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 12, 00:0012.0N 167.6W15 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 06:0012.1N 168.4W15 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 12:0012.2N 169.2W15 ktNot reported
Oct 12, 18:0012.3N 170.0W15 ktNot reported
Oct 13, 00:0012.4N 170.8W20 ktNot reported
Oct 13, 06:0012.4N 171.6W20 ktNot reported
Oct 13, 12:0012.4N 172.4W20 ktNot reported
Oct 13, 18:0012.3N 173.2W20 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 00:0012.2N 174.0W20 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 06:0012.1N 174.9W20 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 12:0012.0N 175.8W20 ktNot reported
Oct 14, 18:0011.9N 176.8W20 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 00:0011.8N 177.8W20 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 06:0011.7N 178.8W20 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 12:0011.6N 179.8W15 ktNot reported
Oct 15, 18:0011.5N 179.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 00:0011.4N 178.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 06:0011.3N 177.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 12:0011.2N 176.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 16, 18:0011.1N 175.2E15 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 00:0011.2N 174.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 06:0011.3N 173.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 12:0011.4N 172.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 17, 18:0011.5N 171.2E20 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 00:0011.7N 170.1E25 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 06:0011.9N 168.9E25 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 12:0012.3N 167.6E25 ktNot reported
Oct 18, 18:0012.7N 166.2E25 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 00:0013.0N 164.8E25 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 06:0013.2N 163.4E25 ktNot reported
Oct 19, 12:0013.4N 162.0E25 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 19, 18:0013.7N 160.7E30 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 00:0013.9N 159.5E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 06:0014.3N 158.6E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 12:0014.7N 157.8E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 20, 18:0015.2N 157.1E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 00:0015.7N 156.5E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 06:0016.2N 156.0E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 12:0016.8N 155.6E35 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 21, 18:0017.5N 155.3E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 00:0018.4N 155.0E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 06:0019.4N 154.7E35 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 12:0020.4N 154.3E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 22, 18:0021.3N 153.8E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 00:0022.1N 153.4E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 06:0023.9N 154.0E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 12:0025.0N 154.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 23, 18:0026.0N 155.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 00:0026.6N 155.9E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 06:0027.6N 157.0E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 12:0029.0N 158.4E45 kt980 mbTropical storm
Oct 24, 18:0031.0N 160.7E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 00:0033.4N 163.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 06:0035.4N 166.9E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Oct 25, 12:0037.0N 170.1E40 kt996 mbMixed
Oct 25, 18:0038.4N 172.7E40 kt1000 mbExtratropical
Oct 26, 00:0040.0N 175.5E40 kt1002 mbExtratropical
Oct 26, 06:0041.7N 178.4W40 kt1004 mbExtratropical
Oct 26, 12:0041.5N 182.5EExtratropical

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.