The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Hector (1994)

Tropical Storm Hector peaked at 55 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 7, 1994 and August 9, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 993 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Tropical Storm Hector. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 7, 1994 to August 9, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 55 kt (63 mph)
Lowest pressure
993 mb (29.32 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 197 km (122 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.6
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP091994

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 7, 00:0018.7N 107.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 06:0019.1N 108.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 7, 12:0019.6N 109.0W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0020.0N 109.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 00:0020.7N 110.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 06:0021.3N 111.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 12:0021.9N 111.7W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 8, 18:0022.6N 112.6W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 00:0023.4N 113.7W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 06:0024.1N 114.7W40 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 9, 12:0024.4N 115.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 18:0024.8N 116.9W25 kt1009 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.