Hurricane Hiki (1950)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 12, 1950 to August 21, 1950

Peak strength

Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 160 km (99 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

12.1

Fastest the center moved

15 kt (17 mph)

Identifier

CP011950

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 52.00 inches (1321 mm).

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1950Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1950Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1950Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1950Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1950Tropical Depression
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1950Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1950Cat 175 kt

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Hiki