The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Paul (1994)

Tropical Storm Paul peaked at 40 kt in the Eastern Pacific between September 24, 1994 and September 30, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 1003 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Paul, 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
September 24, 1994 to September 30, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)
Lowest pressure
1003 mb (29.62 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1560 km (969 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
1.2
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP181994

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
Sep 24, 12:0015.2N 128.3W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 24, 18:0014.9N 128.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 00:0014.8N 128.8W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 06:0014.8N 129.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 12:0014.7N 129.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Sep 25, 18:0014.3N 129.9W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 00:0014.2N 129.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 06:0014.5N 129.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 12:0015.0N 129.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 26, 18:0015.3N 128.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 00:0015.6N 128.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 06:0015.8N 127.8W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 12:0015.9N 127.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Sep 27, 18:0015.9N 126.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Sep 28, 00:0015.9N 125.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 06:0015.6N 124.9W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 12:0015.3N 124.3W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 28, 18:0015.0N 123.7W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 00:0014.9N 123.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 06:0014.7N 122.9W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 12:0014.6N 122.7W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Sep 29, 18:0014.5N 122.5W25 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Sep 30, 00:0014.6N 122.4W20 kt1011 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.