The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Oli (1993)

Tropical Storm Oli peaked at 50 kt in the South Pacific between February 14, 1993 and February 20, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Oli, 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 14, 1993 to February 20, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 50 kt (58 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Identifier
SH201993

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 14, 00:0012.9S 169.6E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 14, 06:0013.1S 170.3E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 14, 12:0013.2S 171.0E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 14, 18:0013.5S 171.7E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 15, 00:0013.9S 172.4E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 15, 06:0014.4S 173.1E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 15, 12:0015.1S 173.7E25 ktTropical storm
Feb 15, 18:0015.7S 174.1E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 00:0016.4S 174.9E30 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 06:0016.9S 175.8E35 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 12:0017.5S 176.7E40 ktTropical storm
Feb 16, 18:0018.4S 177.4E45 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 00:0019.4S 178.0E50 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 06:0020.5S 178.8E50 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 12:0021.7S 179.6E50 ktTropical storm
Feb 17, 18:0022.9S 179.5W45 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 00:0024.1S 178.4W40 ktTropical storm
Feb 18, 06:0025.4S 177.2W35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Feb 18, 12:0026.5S 182.5E40 kt990 mbNot reported
Feb 18, 18:0027.5S 182.6E35 kt995 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 00:0028.5S 183.0E35 kt995 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 06:0029.8S 183.3E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 12:0031.2S 184.0E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 19, 18:0032.5S 184.5E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 20, 00:0033.2S 184.7E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 20, 06:0034.0S 184.8ENot reported
Feb 20, 12:0035.0S 184.9E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Feb 20, 18:0036.0S 185.0E30 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.