The 1994 season

Hurricane Carlotta (1994)

Hurricane Carlotta reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between June 28, 1994 and July 5, 1994, with a lowest pressure of 967 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Carlotta. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 28, 1994 to July 5, 1994
Peak strength
Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
Lowest pressure
967 mb (28.56 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 671 km (417 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.5
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP031994

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
Jun 28, 12:0011.8N 105.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 28, 18:0012.2N 106.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jun 29, 00:0013.1N 106.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0014.0N 108.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0014.6N 109.0W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0015.2N 110.1W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 00:0015.7N 111.1W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 06:0016.1N 112.0W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 12:0016.6N 112.9W90 kt975 mbHurricane
Jun 30, 18:0017.2N 114.0W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 00:0017.7N 115.2W90 kt967 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 06:0018.1N 116.4W90 kt968 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 12:0018.5N 117.6W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 18:0018.8N 118.6W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 00:0019.0N 119.7W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 06:0019.2N 120.7W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 12:0019.4N 121.8W70 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 18:0019.6N 123.0W60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0019.7N 124.0W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0019.9N 124.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0020.1N 125.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0020.3N 126.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0020.5N 127.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 06:0020.7N 128.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 12:0020.8N 129.4W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 18:0020.8N 130.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 5, 00:0020.9N 131.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 5, 06:0020.9N 131.7W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 5, 12:0021.0N 132.6W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1994

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.