The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Marian (1993)

Tropical Storm Marian peaked at 45 kt in the Western Pacific between July 11, 1993 and July 17, 1993.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Marian, 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
July 11, 1993 to July 17, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 63 km (39 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.1
Identifier
WP091993

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 11, 12:008.1N 143.9E15 ktNot reported
Jul 11, 18:008.1N 143.0E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 00:008.1N 142.1E15 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 06:008.1N 141.3E20 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 12:008.0N 140.5E20 ktNot reported
Jul 12, 18:007.9N 139.7E20 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 00:008.0N 138.9E20 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 06:008.1N 138.1E20 ktNot reported
Jul 13, 12:008.4N 137.1E25 ktDisturbance
Jul 13, 18:008.8N 135.8E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 00:009.5N 134.5E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 06:0010.3N 133.2E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0011.3N 132.1E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0012.4N 131.1E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0013.4N 130.1E45 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0014.1N 129.0E40 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 12:0014.7N 128.0E35 ktTropical storm
Jul 15, 18:0015.3N 126.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 00:0015.9N 125.8E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 06:0016.6N 124.9E30 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 12:0017.6N 124.4E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:0018.4N 124.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:0019.3N 123.8E25 ktTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:0020.1N 123.6E20 ktNot reported

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.