The 1994 season

Hurricane Emilia (1994)

Hurricane Emilia reached Category 5 in the Eastern Pacific between July 16, 1994 and July 25, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 926 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Emilia, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1994 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
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 16, 1994 to July 25, 1994
Peak strength
Category 5, 140 kt (161 mph)
Lowest pressure
926 mb (27.34 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 274 km (170 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
33.3
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP051994

Radar at PHWA as it neared land, Jul 22, 06:00 UTC

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
Jul 16, 00:008.5N 131.3W30 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:008.5N 132.3W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:008.8N 133.3W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 16, 18:009.2N 134.5W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 00:009.6N 135.9W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 17, 06:009.9N 137.4W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0010.1N 138.8W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0010.3N 140.1W90 kt968 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0010.4N 141.4W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0010.6N 142.7W115 kt958 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0010.7N 143.8W120 kt953 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0010.8N 144.4W125 kt940 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 00:0011.0N 145.5W130 kt930 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 06:0011.3N 147.0W135 kt928 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 12:0011.5N 148.4W135 kt926 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 18:0011.7N 149.6W140 kt926 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 00:0011.9N 150.6W135 kt926 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 06:0012.3N 151.6W135 kt929 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 12:0012.6N 152.6W135 kt936 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 18:0013.0N 153.4W135 kt935 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 00:0013.5N 154.2W130 kt932 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 06:0014.1N 154.9W130 kt936 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 12:0014.7N 155.5W125 kt945 mbHurricane
Jul 21, 18:0015.4N 156.0W120 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 00:0016.2N 156.6W110 kt965 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 06:0016.9N 157.2W100 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 12:0017.4N 158.0W85 kt990 mbHurricane
Jul 22, 18:0017.9N 158.8W75 kt995 mbHurricane
Jul 23, 00:0018.3N 159.5W60 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0018.8N 160.2W55 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0019.2N 161.0W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0019.7N 162.0W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0020.2N 162.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 06:0020.5N 163.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 12:0020.7N 164.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 24, 18:0021.0N 165.4W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 25, 00:0021.3N 166.4W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1994

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.