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| Category 4 hurricane (SSHS) | ||
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 Hurricane Virgil at peak intensity |
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| Formed | October 1, 1992 | |
| Dissipated | October 5, 1992 | |
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| Lowest pressure | 948 mbar (hPa) | |
| Damage | 0 direct, 1 missing | |
| Fatalities | none | |
| Areas affected |
Southwestern Mexico | |
| Part of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season |
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Hurricane Virgil was a late season hurricane of the 1992 Pacific hurricane season that struck southwestern Mexico in October 1992. The twentith named storm and seventh major hurricane of the 1992 season, Virgil's winds reached category 4 intensity on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale before making landfall in Western Mexico (between the towns of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo) as a category 3 storm.
One person was declared missing and three people were injured as a result of Virgil and the storm damaged or destroyed over 1500 houses.
[edit] Storm history
On September 13, a tropical wave exited the western coast of Africa and crossed the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea without development. On September 25, the system crossed Panama and moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean. Convection began to develop in the tropical wave but the system stayed disorganized until September 30.[1]
