The 1997 season

Hurricane Jimena (1997)

Hurricane Jimena reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between August 25, 1997 and August 30, 1997, with a lowest pressure of 942 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Jimena, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1997 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
August 25, 1997 to August 30, 1997
Peak strength
Category 4, 120 kt (138 mph)
Lowest pressure
942 mb (27.82 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1424 km (885 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.8
Fastest the center moved
13 kt (15 mph)
Identifier
EP121997

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 25, 12:0010.9N 133.1W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0011.0N 133.8W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 00:0011.3N 134.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0011.5N 134.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0011.9N 135.2W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0012.1N 135.5W55 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0012.4N 135.6W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 06:0012.9N 135.8W100 kt968 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 12:0013.6N 135.9W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 18:0014.4N 136.1W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 00:0015.1N 136.3W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 06:0016.2N 136.7W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 12:0017.4N 137.1W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 18:0018.6N 137.7W115 kt948 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 00:0019.6N 138.2W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 06:0020.2N 138.8W60 kt980 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 12:0020.5N 139.7W35 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 29, 18:0020.6N 140.5W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 00:0020.5N 141.2W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 1997

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.