Hurricane Patsy (1959)
Hurricane Patsy reached Category 5 in the Eastern Pacific between September 6, 1959 and September 11, 1959, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Patsy, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1959 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- September 6, 1959 to September 11, 1959
- Peak strength
- Category 5, 150 kt (173 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 970 mb (28.64 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 1881 km (1169 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 18.1
- Fastest the center moved
- 28 kt (32 mph)
- Identifier
- CP021959
Deaths and damage
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.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 00:00 | 18.7N 181.3E | Tropical storm | ||
| Sep 6, 06:00 | 20.0N 180.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 6, 12:00 | 20.8N 179.5W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 6, 18:00 | 22.2N 178.5W | 150 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 7, 00:00 | 23.5N 178.1W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 7, 06:00 | 24.9N 178.2W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 7, 12:00 | 26.2N 179.1W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 7, 18:00 | 26.9N 179.7W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 8, 00:00 | 27.3N 178.7W | 100 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 8, 06:00 | 27.7N 178.2W | 100 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 8, 12:00 | 27.9N 178.0W | 100 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 8, 18:00 | 28.1N 177.9W | 120 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 9, 00:00 | 28.4N 178.0W | 90 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 9, 06:00 | 29.2N 178.7W | 90 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 9, 12:00 | 30.2N 179.3W | 80 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 9, 18:00 | 31.2N 180.0W | 80 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 10, 00:00 | 32.4N 179.6W | 60 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 10, 06:00 | 33.5N 179.6W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 10, 12:00 | 34.5N 179.8W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 10, 18:00 | 35.1N 181.1E | Tropical storm | ||
| Sep 11, 00:00 | 37.4N 179.8E | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Hurricane DotEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959
- Tropical Storm WandaEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 1959
- Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1959
What this means
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.
Sources
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.