The 1995 season

Hurricane Cosme (1995)

Hurricane Cosme reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 17, 1995 and July 22, 1995, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Cosme, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1995 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 17, 1995 to July 22, 1995
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 422 km (262 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.7
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP041995

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 17, 00:0017.0N 108.1W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 06:0017.2N 108.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 12:0017.3N 109.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 17, 18:0017.5N 109.5W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 00:0017.8N 109.8W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Jul 18, 06:0018.1N 110.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 12:0018.4N 111.2W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 18, 18:0018.8N 112.0W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 00:0019.3N 112.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 06:0019.7N 113.6W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 12:0020.2N 114.4W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jul 19, 18:0020.8N 115.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 00:0021.5N 116.5W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 06:0021.7N 117.3W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 12:0021.8N 118.3W60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0021.6N 119.4W50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0021.4N 120.6W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0021.2N 121.7W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0021.0N 122.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0020.8N 124.0W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0020.6N 125.0W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1995

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.