Hurricane Estelle (1986)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

July 16, 1986 to July 26, 1986

Peak strength

Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)

Landfall

No; closest approach 213 km (132 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

21.3

Fastest the center moved

20 kt (23 mph)

Identifier

EP051986

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.

• Hurricane AgathaEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 165 kt
• Tropical Storm BlasEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm35 kt
• Hurricane CeliaEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 175 kt
• Tropical Storm DarbyEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm35 kt
• Hurricane FrankEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 175 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression30 kt
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane GeorgetteEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 165 kt · 970 mb
• Tropical Storm HowardEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm35 kt
• Tropical Storm IsisEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm45 kt
• Hurricane JavierEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 4115 kt
• Tropical Storm KayEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm40 kt
• Tropical Storm LesterEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm45 kt
• Tropical Storm MadelineEastern Pacific · 1986Tropical Storm60 kt
• Hurricane NewtonEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 175 kt
• Hurricane OrleneEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 170 kt
• Hurricane PaineEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 285 kt
• Hurricane RoslynEastern Pacific · 1986Cat 4125 kt

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.

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.

• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Estelle