Hurricane Dot (1959)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

August 1, 1959 to August 8, 1959

Peak strength

Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)

Lowest pressure

952 mb (28.11 inHg)

Landfall

Yes

Accumulated cyclone energy

28.0

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

CP011959

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.

• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959Cat 175 kt
• Hurricane PatsyEastern Pacific · 1959Cat 5150 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959Cat 175 kt · 967 mb
• Tropical Storm WandaEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm60 kt
• Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959Tropical Storm45 kt
• Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959Cat 4120 kt · 958 mb

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 Dot