The 1993 season

Tropical Storm Roger (1993)

Tropical Storm Roger peaked at 55 kt in the South Pacific between March 10, 1993 and March 27, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 980 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Roger, 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
March 10, 1993 to March 27, 1993
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
980 mb (28.94 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
6.0
Identifier
SH221993

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
Mar 10, 06:008.2S 163.5E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 10, 12:008.8S 162.7E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 10, 18:009.2S 161.8E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 00:009.6S 160.9E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 06:009.8S 159.9E20 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 12:009.9S 158.9E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 11, 18:0010.0S 158.0E25 ktTropical storm
Mar 12, 00:0010.3S 157.2E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 06:0010.8S 156.5E30 kt998 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 12:0011.6S 156.3E30 kt995 mbTropical storm
Mar 12, 18:0012.4S 156.3E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 00:0013.3S 156.2E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 06:0014.1S 156.1E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 12:0014.7S 155.9E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 13, 18:0015.3S 155.7E45 kt988 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 00:0015.9S 155.6E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 06:0016.5S 155.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 12:0017.1S 155.5E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 14, 18:0017.7S 155.5E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 00:0018.7S 155.6E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 06:0019.7S 156.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 12:0020.7S 156.0E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 15, 18:0021.5S 155.9E55 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 00:0022.1S 155.8E50 kt980 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 06:0022.6S 155.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 12:0023.1S 155.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 16, 18:0023.7S 155.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 00:0024.2S 155.7E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 06:0024.5S 155.9E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 12:0024.2S 156.2E45 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 17, 18:0023.9S 156.7E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 00:0023.4S 157.0E40 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 06:0022.9S 157.3E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 12:0022.4S 157.5E35 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 18, 18:0021.9S 157.8E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 00:0021.4S 158.1E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 06:0020.9S 158.5E30 kt985 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 12:0020.6S 158.8E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 19, 18:0020.3S 159.0E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 00:0020.1S 159.1E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 06:0020.0S 159.3E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 12:0019.9S 159.5E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 20, 18:0020.4S 160.0E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 00:0021.1S 161.0E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 06:0021.7S 162.2E30 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 12:0022.3S 163.4E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 21, 18:0023.1S 165.2E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 00:0024.1S 167.7E35 ktTropical storm
Mar 22, 06:0025.1S 170.3E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Mar 22, 12:0025.5S 172.5E35 kt995 mbNot reported
Mar 22, 18:0025.6S 174.0E35 kt995 mbNot reported
Mar 23, 00:0025.8S 175.5E30 kt997 mbNot reported
Mar 23, 06:0025.9S 176.9ENot reported
Mar 23, 12:0026.0S 178.0E25 kt1001 mbNot reported
Mar 23, 18:0026.1S 178.7ENot reported
Mar 24, 00:0026.4S 179.5E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 24, 06:0026.8S 180.9ENot reported
Mar 24, 12:0027.3S 183.0E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 24, 18:0027.7S 186.0ENot reported
Mar 25, 00:0028.0S 189.0E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 25, 06:0028.4S 191.0ENot reported
Mar 25, 12:0029.0S 193.0E25 kt1002 mbNot reported
Mar 25, 18:0029.7S 195.5ENot reported
Mar 26, 00:0030.5S 198.5E25 kt1003 mbNot reported
Mar 26, 06:0031.4S 202.2ENot reported
Mar 26, 12:0032.3S 206.2E25 kt1007 mbNot reported
Mar 26, 18:0033.0S 210.0E25 kt1008 mbNot reported
Mar 27, 00:0032.5S 215.0E25 kt1008 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.