The 1975 season

Hurricane Jewel (1975)

Hurricane Jewel reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 23, 1975 and August 31, 1975.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Jewel, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1975 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
August 23, 1975 to August 31, 1975
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Landfall
No; closest approach 426 km (265 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
5.2
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP101975

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
Aug 23, 18:0012.0N 100.0WTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0012.5N 100.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 06:0013.1N 101.7W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 12:0013.7N 103.1W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 24, 18:0014.3N 104.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 00:0014.9N 105.3W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 06:0015.3N 106.0W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 12:0015.5N 106.6W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0015.8N 107.2W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0016.0N 107.8W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0016.2N 108.5W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0016.3N 109.3W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0016.3N 109.8W50 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0016.4N 110.2W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 06:0016.5N 110.6W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 27, 12:0016.5N 111.0W65 ktHurricane
Aug 27, 18:0016.5N 111.6W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 00:0016.4N 112.2W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 06:0016.3N 113.0W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 12:0016.3N 114.1W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 28, 18:0016.3N 115.3W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 00:0016.4N 116.5W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 06:0016.6N 117.8W55 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0017.0N 119.0W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0017.7N 120.1W45 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 00:0018.3N 121.3W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 06:0018.7N 122.6W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 12:0018.9N 124.0W40 ktTropical storm
Aug 30, 18:0019.0N 125.1W35 ktTropical storm
Aug 31, 00:0019.0N 126.2W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0019.0N 127.6W30 ktTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0019.0N 129.0W25 ktTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1975

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.