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Hurricane Iniki


September 5-13, 1992

 
                               
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EVENT AT A GLANCE

Category 4 Hurricane (SSHS*)

Maximum Wind Speed1:

155 mph (135knots, 70m/s)

          @ landfall

130mph (115knots, 60m/s)

Minimum Central Pressure (Po)1:

938 millibars (27.70 in Hg)

          @ landfall

950 millibars (28.05 in Hg)

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EVENT OVERVIEW

On September 5th Hurricane Iniki formed as a tropical depression over warm waters about 1600 miles southwest of Baja California. Intensifying, it crossed into the central Pacific on the morning of September 6th. On September 7th it was upgraded to Tropical Storm Iniki and on the 8th, when it was 470 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawai`I, it was upgraded from a tropical storm to a hurricane.

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HURSAT TROPICAL CYCLONE MOVIE
WIND FIELD (PLACEHOLDER)
Source: University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/MET/Faculty/businger/poster/hurricane/
EVENT RANKINGS


Most Intense and Costliest Hurricanes of the 1990s in the United States
 
  HURRICANE YEAR PRESSURE
1 Andrew 1992 922 mb
2 Opal 1995 942 mb
3 Iniki 1992 950 mb
4 Bret 1999 951 mb
5 Fran 1996 954 mb
 
Source: "The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones From 1851 to 2006", by Eric S. Blake, Edward N. Rappaport, and Christopher W. Landsea, National Hurricane Center. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Deadliest_Costliest.shtml
      
  HURRICANE YEAR AREA OF IMPACT COST(*)
1 Andrew 1992
Florida, Louisiana
$26,500
2 Floyd 1999
Mid-Atlantic and Northeast U.S
$4,500
3 Fran 1996
North Carolina
$3,200
4 Opal 1995
Florida, Alabama
$3,000
5 Georges 1998
U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama
$2,955
6 Iniki 1992
Hawaii
$1,800
7 Bob 1991
North Carolina, Northeast U.S
$1,500
8 Marilyn 1995
U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
$1,500
9 Bonnie 1998
North Carolina, Virginia
$720
10 Erin 1998
Florida
$700
(*) cost in millions of dollars unadjusted for inflation
NASA LOOPS (PLACEHOLDER)
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