All storm pages · 1993 Pacific season
Hurricane Keoni 1993
Category 4 hurricane · Eastern and Central Pacific · August 9 to August 29, 1993
Keoni lasted 20.50 days as a tropical or subtropical cyclone, the fourth-longest lifespan of the 1,262 eastern and central Pacific storms. It was still a hurricane at 32.8°N, the ninth-farthest north reach of hurricane strength among 603 eastern and central Pacific hurricanes. It generated 17% of the season's accumulated cyclone energy, more than any other 1993 storm.
Strength over time
- First record (tropical depression) 890 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii
- Tropical storm 610 miles south-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii
- Hurricane 590 miles southwest of Hilo, Hawaii
- Major hurricane 845 miles southwest of Lihue, Hawaii
- Peak, 130 mph 900 miles west-southwest of Lihue, Hawaii
- Last record (tropical depression) far out at sea, at 34.4°N, 166.0°E
Against every Pacific storm since 1949
In the 1993 season
Storm 7 of 18 in 1993, hurricane 6 of 11; it formed after Eugene and before Fernanda. Keoni ranks joint fourth by peak wind in the season. See the season.
Closest to land
Nearest town of 10,000 people or more: Hilo, Hawaii, 521 miles from the center on August 13 (tropical storm stage).
Also peaked at 130 mph
Of 45 storms from other Pacific seasons, the nearest in time:
- Virgil (1992)948 mb, landfall in Michoacán
- Lane (1994)948 mb, no landfall record
- Jimena (1991)945 mb, no landfall record
- Adolph (1995)948 mb, no landfall record