The 1994 season

Hurricane Ileana (1994)

Hurricane Ileana reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 10, 1994 and August 14, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 986 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Ileana, 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
August 10, 1994 to August 14, 1994
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
986 mb (29.12 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 172 km (107 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.2
Identifier
EP111994

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 10, 12:0014.5N 107.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 18:0015.0N 107.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 00:0015.6N 107.5W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 06:0016.2N 107.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 11, 12:0016.7N 107.9W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0017.3N 108.3W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0018.0N 108.9W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0018.8N 109.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0019.8N 110.3W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0021.0N 111.2W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 00:0022.4N 112.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 06:0023.7N 113.4W60 kt989 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0024.8N 114.7W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0025.6N 116.3W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0026.3N 118.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0026.7N 119.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 12:0026.9N 121.7W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0027.0N 123.5W25 kt1012 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.