NHC EP141992 · Eastern Pacific basin
Hurricane Lester (1992)
August 20, 1992 – August 24, 1992
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
Hurricane Lester peaked at Category 1 with 81 mph sustained winds and passed within 75 miles of 24 US cities, 0 of them while still at hurricane strength.
Lester in the record
HURDAT2 tracks Lester from August 20, 1992 to August 24, 1992; its peak was 81 mph (Category 1). Its centre passed within 75 miles of 24 US cities, all in Arizona. The strongest pass was 43 mph (tropical storm) 3 miles from Nogales, AZ.
- Peak strength
- Category 1
- Cities within 75 mi
- 24
- At hurricane strength
- 0
- States
- 1
81 mph
when closest
Cities Lester passed near, strongest first
Arizona (24)
- NogalesTropical storm · 3 mi
- Rio RicoTropical storm · 10 mi
- Green ValleyTropical storm · 21 mi
- SahuaritaTropical storm · 23 mi
- Fort HuachucaTropical storm · 25 mi
- Sierra VistaTropical storm · 28 mi
- HerefordTropical storm · 32 mi
- BisbeeTropical storm · 50 mi
- SellsTropical storm · 75 mi
- VailTropical storm · 9 mi
- Huachuca CityTropical storm · 18 mi
- TucsonTropical storm · 30 mi
- Oro ValleyTropical storm · 40 mi
- San ManuelTropical storm · 42 mi
- WillcoxTropical storm · 44 mi
- OracleTropical storm · 46 mi
- MaranaTropical storm · 53 mi
- Red RockTropical storm · 64 mi
- DouglasTropical storm · 69 mi
- ThatcherTropical storm · 71 mi
- SaffordTropical storm · 73 mi
- PimaTropical storm · 73 mi
- BylasTropical storm · 74 mi
- BensonTropical storm · 8 mi
Other storms of the 1992 season
About this record
The track is the National Hurricane Center's best-track record, revised after the season with every observation available. Strength at a city is the sustained wind on the track at the closest point, not the wind that city measured.