The 1974 season

Hurricane Connie (1974)

Hurricane Connie reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between June 7, 1974 and June 22, 1974, with a lowest pressure of 942 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Connie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1974 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 7, 1974 to June 22, 1974
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
942 mb (27.82 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 226 km (140 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
13.0
Fastest the center moved
10 kt (12 mph)
Identifier
EP031974

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)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 7, 00:009.6N 102.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 7, 06:0010.1N 103.1W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 7, 12:0010.6N 103.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 7, 18:0011.1N 104.2W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 8, 00:0011.5N 104.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 8, 06:0011.5N 104.7W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 8, 12:0011.6N 104.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 8, 18:0011.9N 104.9W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 00:0012.2N 105.1W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 06:0012.4N 105.3W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 12:0012.6N 105.5W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 9, 18:0012.7N 105.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 00:0012.8N 106.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 06:0012.9N 106.3W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0013.1N 106.7W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0013.3N 107.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0013.4N 107.4W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0013.5N 107.8W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 11, 12:0013.6N 108.2W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 11, 18:0013.7N 108.4W40 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jun 12, 00:0013.7N 108.6W45 ktTropical storm
Jun 12, 06:0013.7N 109.0W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 12, 12:0013.7N 109.5W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 12, 18:0013.7N 109.9W65 ktHurricane
Jun 13, 00:0013.8N 110.4W75 ktHurricane
Jun 13, 06:0014.0N 111.0W80 ktHurricane
Jun 13, 12:0014.2N 111.5W80 ktHurricane
Jun 13, 18:0014.4N 111.9W90 kt942 mbHurricane
Jun 14, 00:0014.7N 112.3W110 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 06:0015.0N 112.6W95 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 12:0015.4N 112.8W85 ktHurricane
Jun 14, 18:0015.7N 113.0W80 ktHurricane
Jun 15, 00:0016.0N 113.2W75 ktHurricane
Jun 15, 06:0016.5N 113.2W65 ktHurricane
Jun 15, 12:0017.0N 113.1W65 ktHurricane
Jun 15, 18:0017.4N 112.9W65 ktHurricane
Jun 16, 00:0017.6N 112.6W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 06:0017.6N 111.9W55 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 12:0017.2N 111.3W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 16, 18:0016.8N 111.1W50 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 00:0016.5N 111.0W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 06:0016.9N 111.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 17, 12:0017.3N 111.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 17, 18:0017.5N 110.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 18, 00:0017.5N 110.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 18, 06:0017.3N 109.8W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 18, 12:0017.0N 109.0W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 18, 18:0016.7N 108.5W30 ktTropical depression
Jun 19, 00:0016.5N 108.0W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 06:0016.6N 107.7W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 12:0016.9N 107.6W40 ktTropical storm
Jun 19, 18:0017.2N 107.6W35 ktTropical storm
Jun 20, 00:0017.6N 107.7W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 20, 06:0018.1N 108.0W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 20, 12:0018.5N 108.4W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 20, 18:0018.9N 109.3W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 21, 00:0019.3N 110.2W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 21, 06:0019.7N 110.6W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 21, 12:0020.2N 110.9W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 21, 18:0020.7N 111.1W25 ktTropical depression
Jun 22, 00:0021.2N 111.2W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1974

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.