Hurricane Olivia (1975)
Hurricane Olivia reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between October 22, 1975 and October 25, 1975, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Olivia, 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.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- October 22, 1975 to October 25, 1975
- Peak strength
- Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.8
- Fastest the center moved
- 15 kt (17 mph)
- Identifier
- EP151975
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 00:00 | 13.7N 107.6W | 25 kt | Tropical depression | |
| Oct 22, 06:00 | 14.2N 109.0W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 22, 12:00 | 14.7N 110.0W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 22, 18:00 | 15.1N 110.5W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 23, 00:00 | 15.6N 110.8W | 35 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 23, 06:00 | 16.0N 111.0W | 40 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 23, 12:00 | 16.5N 111.0W | 45 kt | Tropical storm | |
| Oct 23, 18:00 | 16.9N 110.8W | 75 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 24, 00:00 | 17.6N 110.5W | 80 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 24, 06:00 | 18.7N 110.0W | 80 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 24, 12:00 | 20.0N 109.3W | 90 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 24, 18:00 | 21.2N 108.3W | 90 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 25, 00:00 | 22.2N 107.3W | 95 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 25, 06:00 | 23.0N 106.3W | 100 kt | Hurricane | |
| Oct 25, 12:00 | 23.6N 105.3W | 75 kt | Hurricane |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1975
- Hurricane AgathaEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm BridgetEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane CarlottaEastern Pacific · 1975
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane DeniseEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm EleanorEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm FranceneEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm HilaryEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane IlsaEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane JewelEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane KatrinaEastern Pacific · 1975
- Unnamed hurricaneEastern Pacific · 1975
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1975
- Hurricane LilyEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm MonicaEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm NanetteEastern Pacific · 1975
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1975
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1975
- Tropical Storm PriscillaEastern Pacific · 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.