Formed June 18, 1993 Areas affected Mexico Fatalities 6 | Dissipated June 20, 1993 Affected area Mexico | |
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Highest winds 1-minute sustained: 65 mph (100 km/h) Lowest pressure 995 mbar (hPa); 29.38 inHg Damage $1.7 billion (1993 USD) Date 18 June 1993 – 20 June 1993 Similar Hurricane Fernanda, Tropical Storm Lidia, Hurricane Otis, Tropical Storm Norma, Hurricane Kenneth | ||
Tropical Storm Beatriz of 1993 was a strong tropical storm that made landfall in Mexico during the moderately active 1993 Pacific hurricane season. It had managed to cause $1.7 billion (1993 USD) in damages throughout Mexico.
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Meteorological history
The second named storm of the season originated from a slow-moving area of increasing cloudiness over the Gulf of Tehuantepec on June 14. Moving little, a broad area of low pressure formed within the mass, but the area remained disorganized, although a tropical wave moved through on June 16. However, another tropical wave moved through on June 18, and the area of cloudiness gradually became more concentrated, and post-storm analysis indicated that a tropical depression formed on June 18 near Huatulco as banding increased. A report of tropical storm-force winds from a ship was issued, and the depression was quickly upgraded to Tropical Storm Beatriz.
Beatriz moved northwest due to influence from the outflow from developing Tropical Storm Arlene in the Gulf of Mexico, briefly reaching its peak intensity of 65 mph (105 km/h) on June 19 shortly prior to landfall near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. The storm quickly made its landfall in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Beatriz quickly weakened after landfall, dissipating over the mountainous southwest Mexican terrain, although the remnant cloudiness associated from the storm's circulation spread over portions of the western Gulf of Mexico on June 20.
Impact
Beatriz caused extensive damage in southwest Mexico, especially from heavy rains and flooding, with highest rainfall totals of between five and ten inches occurring in Oaxaca, with even higher totals of 11.97 in (304 mm) and 15.46 in (393 mm) from Las Pilas and Salina Cruz. Six deaths were reported in the Mexican states of Morelos and Veracruz from flooding and downed trees attributed to Beatriz. Total losses from the storm amounted to $1.7 billion (1993 USD; $2.58 billion 2011 USD).