Hurricane Liza (1968)
Hurricane Liza reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 28, 1968 and September 6, 1968.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Liza, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1968 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
- August 28, 1968 to September 6, 1968
- Peak strength
- Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 533 km (331 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 10.7
- Fastest the center moved
- 16 kt (18 mph)
- Identifier
- EP121968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 00:00 | 12.1N 101.2W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 28, 06:00 | 12.3N 101.6W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 28, 12:00 | 12.4N 102.1W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Aug 28, 18:00 | 12.6N 103.3W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 29, 00:00 | 12.9N 104.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 29, 06:00 | 13.2N 106.3W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 29, 12:00 | 13.6N 107.8W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Aug 29, 18:00 | 14.1N 109.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 30, 00:00 | 14.6N 110.2W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 30, 06:00 | 15.0N 111.2W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 30, 12:00 | 15.5N 112.3W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 30, 18:00 | 16.0N 113.6W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 31, 00:00 | 16.5N 114.9W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 31, 06:00 | 16.9N 116.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 31, 12:00 | 17.4N 117.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Aug 31, 18:00 | 17.9N 118.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 1, 00:00 | 18.4N 118.9W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 1, 06:00 | 18.7N 119.5W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 1, 12:00 | 19.1N 120.1W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 1, 18:00 | 19.5N 120.5W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 2, 00:00 | 19.9N 121.0W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Sep 2, 06:00 | 20.3N 121.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 2, 12:00 | 20.7N 122.4W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 2, 18:00 | 21.0N 122.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 3, 00:00 | 21.3N 123.0W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 3, 06:00 | 21.6N 123.3W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 3, 12:00 | 21.9N 123.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 3, 18:00 | 22.2N 124.1W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 4, 00:00 | 22.6N 124.6W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 4, 06:00 | 23.1N 125.2W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 4, 12:00 | 23.6N 125.7W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Sep 4, 18:00 | 23.8N 125.9W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Sep 5, 00:00 | 24.0N 126.2W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Sep 5, 06:00 | 24.1N 126.7W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Sep 5, 12:00 | 23.9N 127.2W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Sep 5, 18:00 | 23.7N 127.5W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Sep 6, 00:00 | 23.5N 127.8W | 25 kt | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1968
- Tropical Storm AnnetteEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm BonnyEastern Pacific · 1968
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm CelesteEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm DianaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm EstelleEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Depression EstelleEastern Pacific · 1968
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968
- Hurricane FernandaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm GwenEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm HyacinthEastern Pacific · 1968
- Hurricane JoanneEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm IvaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm KathleenEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm VirginiaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm MadelineEastern Pacific · 1968
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1968
- Hurricane NaomiEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm OrlaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Hurricane PaulineEastern Pacific · 1968
- Hurricane RebeccaEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm SimoneEastern Pacific · 1968
- Tropical Storm TaraEastern Pacific · 1968
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.