The 1994 season

Unnamed tropical depression (1994)

Unnamed tropical depression peaked at 30 kt in the Eastern Pacific between August 12, 1994 and August 15, 1994.

Radar

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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 12, 1994 to August 15, 1994
Peak strength
Tropical Depression, 30 kt (35 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 483 km (300 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
0.0
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP121994

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 12, 00:0016.3N 119.6W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 12, 06:0016.4N 119.9W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 12, 12:0016.6N 119.8W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 12, 18:0017.0N 119.5W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 13, 00:0017.6N 119.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 13, 06:0018.1N 119.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0018.6N 118.8W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 13, 18:0019.3N 118.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 14, 00:0020.1N 117.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 14, 06:0021.6N 116.8W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 14, 12:0023.0N 117.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 14, 18:0024.2N 117.9W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 15, 00:0025.1N 119.2W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 15, 06:0025.3N 121.1W25 ktTropical depression
Aug 15, 12:0025.5N 123.1W25 ktTropical 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.