Hurricane Hector (1988)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

July 30, 1988 to August 9, 1988

Peak strength

Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)

Lowest pressure

935 mb (27.61 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 515 km (320 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

22.5

Fastest the center moved

15 kt (17 mph)

Identifier

EP081988

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.

• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm AlettaEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm60 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm BudEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane CarlottaEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 165 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Storm DanielEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Storm EmiliaEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm60 kt · 992 mb
• Tropical Storm GilmaEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane FabioEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 4120 kt · 943 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression25 kt
• Hurricane IvaEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 290 kt · 968 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm JohnEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm35 kt · 1004 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression30 kt
• Hurricane UlekiEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 3110 kt · 945 mb
• Hurricane KristyEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 180 kt · 976 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression30 kt
• Tropical Storm WilaEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Storm35 kt
• Hurricane LaneEastern Pacific · 1988Cat 290 kt · 970 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 1988Tropical Depression30 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.