Hurricane Carlotta (1988)

Hurricane Carlotta reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 8, 1988 and July 15, 1988, with a lowest pressure of 994 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Carlotta, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1988 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: July 8, 1988 to July 15, 1988
Peak strength: Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure: 994 mb (29.35 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 549 km (341 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 4.3
Fastest the center moved: 12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier: EP031988

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
Jul 8, 18:00	13.3N 104.1W	30 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 9, 00:00	13.4N 104.7W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 9, 06:00	13.7N 105.8W	30 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 9, 12:00	13.9N 107.0W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 9, 18:00	14.2N 108.1W	40 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 10, 00:00	14.6N 109.2W	45 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 10, 06:00	15.0N 110.3W	50 kt	997 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 10, 12:00	15.5N 111.4W	55 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 10, 18:00	16.0N 112.5W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 00:00	16.6N 113.5W	60 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 11, 06:00	17.3N 114.5W	65 kt	994 mb	Hurricane
Jul 11, 12:00	17.9N 115.4W	65 kt	994 mb	Hurricane
Jul 11, 18:00	18.6N 116.5W	65 kt	994 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 00:00	19.1N 117.4W	65 kt	994 mb	Hurricane
Jul 12, 06:00	19.8N 118.5W	60 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 12, 12:00	20.4N 119.5W	50 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 12, 18:00	20.9N 120.3W	45 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 13, 00:00	21.1N 121.1W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
Jul 13, 06:00	21.4N 122.0W	30 kt	1009 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 13, 12:00	21.6N 122.9W	30 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 13, 18:00	21.7N 123.7W	30 kt	1010 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 14, 00:00	21.5N 124.4W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 14, 06:00	21.3N 125.0W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 14, 12:00	21.2N 125.7W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 14, 18:00	21.1N 126.3W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 15, 00:00	21.0N 127.0W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 15, 06:00	21.0N 127.6W	25 kt	1011 mb	Tropical depression
Jul 15, 12:00	21.0N 128.2W	20 kt	1012 mb	Tropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1988

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.