Cyclone Polly (1993)

Basin

South Pacific

Dates

February 22, 1993 to March 9, 1993

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

945 mb (27.91 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 102 km (63 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

15.9

Identifier

SH211993

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.

• Cyclone JoniSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 3110 kt · 985 mb
• Cyclone NinaSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 175 kt · 960 mb
• Cyclone KinaSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 4120 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm35 kt
• Cyclone LinSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 290 kt · 995 mb
• Tropical Storm MickSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm45 kt · 990 mb
• Cyclone OliverSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 4115 kt · 950 mb
• Cyclone NishaSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 165 kt · 980 mb
• Tropical Storm OliSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm50 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm RogerSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm55 kt · 980 mb
• Cyclone PremaSouth Pacific · 1993Cat 4125 kt · 975 mb
• Tropical Storm AdelSouth Pacific · 1993Tropical Storm45 kt · 970 mb

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.

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.