The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Mick (1993)

Tropical Storm Mick peaked at 45 kt in the South Pacific between February 3, 1993 and February 11, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Mick, 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
South Pacific
Dates
February 3, 1993 to February 11, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 45 kt (52 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 135 km (84 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.3
Identifier
SH171993

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
Feb 3, 00:0013.8S 169.2W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 06:0013.9S 169.7W20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 12:0014.1S 170.2W20 ktTropical storm
Feb 3, 18:0014.3S 170.6W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 00:0014.5S 170.9W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 06:0014.7S 171.3W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 12:0015.0S 171.7W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 4, 18:0015.3S 172.1W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 5, 00:0015.7S 172.4W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 5, 06:0016.1S 172.5W25 ktTropical storm
Feb 5, 12:0016.6S 172.6W30 ktTropical storm
Feb 5, 18:0017.1S 172.6W30 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 00:0017.8S 173.0W30 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 06:0018.3S 173.7W35 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 12:0018.5S 174.6W35 ktTropical storm
Feb 6, 18:0018.7S 175.5W35 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 00:0018.9S 176.4W40 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 06:0019.2S 177.2W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 12:0019.7S 177.9W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 7, 18:0020.5S 178.5W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 00:0021.4S 179.0W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 06:0022.3S 179.6W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 12:0023.2S 179.9E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 8, 18:0024.0S 179.4E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 9, 00:0024.7S 179.0E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 06:0025.4S 178.6E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 12:0026.2S 178.3E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Feb 9, 18:0028.5S 178.5E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 10, 00:0030.5S 178.5E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 10, 06:0030.8S 178.0E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 10, 12:0032.0S 177.9E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 10, 18:0033.3S 177.8ENot reported
Feb 11, 00:0034.5S 177.8E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 11, 06:0035.3S 178.2ENot reported
Feb 11, 12:0036.0S 179.0E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 11, 18:0037.0S 180.0E30 kt997 mbNot reported

Other South 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.