The 1994 season

Tropical Storm Sadie (1994)

Tropical Storm Sadie peaked at 35 kt in the South Pacific between January 28, 1994 and February 1, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 990 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Tropical Storm Sadie, 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
South Pacific
Dates
January 28, 1994 to February 1, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Storm, 35 kt (40 mph)
Lowest pressure
990 mb (29.23 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.4
Identifier
SH141994

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
Jan 28, 00:0011.0S 136.0E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 28, 06:0011.4S 136.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 28, 12:0011.8S 137.0E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 28, 18:0012.1S 137.5E20 ktTropical storm
Jan 29, 00:0012.4S 137.9E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 29, 06:0012.7S 138.3E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 29, 12:0013.0S 138.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 29, 18:0013.3S 139.1E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 30, 00:0013.7S 139.5E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 06:0014.3S 140.1E30 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 12:0015.0S 140.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 30, 18:0016.5S 141.8E35 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 00:0018.3S 142.2E35 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 06:0020.0S 142.1E30 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jan 31, 12:0021.5S 142.7E25 ktTropical storm
Jan 31, 18:0022.9S 144.0E20 ktTropical storm
Feb 1, 00:0023.7S 144.9E15 ktTropical storm

Other South 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.