Satellite image of Cyclone Kina near its peak intensity on 30 December
Meteorological history
Formed
23 December 1992 (1992-12-23)
Dissipated
5 January 1993 (1993-01-05)
Category 3 severe tropical cyclone
10-minute sustained (FMS)
Highest winds
150 km/h (90 mph)
Lowest pressure
955 hPa (mbar); 28.20 inHg
Category 4-equivalent tropical cyclone
1-minute sustained (SSHWS/JTWC)
Highest winds
220 km/h (140 mph)
Overall effects
Fatalities
26 total
Damage
$110 million (1993 USD)
Areas affected
Fiji and Southern Tonga
IBTrACS
Part of the 1992–93 South Pacific cyclone season
Severe Tropical Cyclone Kina was at the time the costliest storm to impact Fiji on record. Total losses from Kina are estimated to be near $F170 million ($US110 million). The system was first noted as a tropical depression, to the east of the Solomon Islands on 23 December. Over the next few days the system moved south-eastwards and gradually developed further, before it was named Kina, after it had developed into a tropical cyclone on 26 December.
Severe Tropical CycloneKina was at the time the costliest storm to impact Fiji on record. Total losses from Kina are estimated to be near $F170 million...
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has declined from some 750 in the early 1990s to less than 500 since the cyclone in 2005. Literacy in the Pukapukan language was introduced in the school...
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meetings by slaves, and forbade Carnival. Six years later, in 1800, Jean Kina, an ex-slave from Saint Domingue and aide-de-camp to a British officer, fled...
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October 1979 within PNG’s 200-mile fishing zone. The skipper was fined 1000 kina and the vessel’s fishing gear was seized. Sports fishing takes place off...
(2008–2020), complications from COVID-19. Radhi Jazi, 92, Tunisian pharmacist. Kina Kadreva, 88, Bulgarian children's book writer. Magda Kósáné Kovács, 79, Hungarian...
1960 Ship State Description Grief West Germany The coaster collided with Kina ( Denmark) and sank off Bremerhaven. All 13 crew rescued by a customs boat...
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