The 1993 season

Typhoon Tasha (1993)

Typhoon Tasha reached Category 1 in the Western Pacific between August 12, 1993 and August 22, 1993, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Tasha, 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
August 12, 1993 to August 22, 1993
Peak strength
Category 1, 80 kt (92 mph)
Lowest pressure
970 mb (28.64 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.3
Identifier
WP161993

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
Aug 12, 00:007.0N 152.7E10 ktNot reported
Aug 12, 06:007.2N 151.3E10 ktNot reported
Aug 12, 12:007.5N 149.9E15 ktNot reported
Aug 12, 18:007.6N 148.5E15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 00:007.8N 147.1E15 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 06:008.0N 145.6E20 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 12:008.1N 144.1E20 ktNot reported
Aug 13, 18:008.2N 142.6E20 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:008.3N 141.0E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 14, 06:008.3N 139.4E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 14, 12:008.4N 137.7E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 14, 18:008.6N 135.5E20 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 00:009.4N 133.2E25 kt1008 mbMixed
Aug 15, 06:0010.8N 131.2E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0012.5N 129.7E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0013.7N 128.7E25 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0014.6N 128.0E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0015.4N 127.2E30 kt1008 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0016.2N 126.4E35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0016.9N 125.6E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0017.7N 124.9E40 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0018.3N 124.1E40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0018.8N 123.2E45 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0019.1N 122.2E45 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0019.3N 121.2E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0019.5N 120.2E50 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0019.7N 119.1E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0019.9N 118.0E55 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0019.9N 116.9E60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0019.7N 116.0E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0019.8N 115.2E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0020.0N 114.5E65 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0020.2N 113.9E70 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0020.6N 113.3E80 kt975 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0020.9N 112.6E80 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0021.3N 111.9E75 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0021.7N 111.0E70 kt970 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0022.1N 110.1E60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0022.7N 109.3E50 kt985 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0023.3N 108.3E40 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0024.2N 106.6E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0024.5N 104.5E25 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0024.0N 106.5E1000 mbTropical storm

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.