Hurricane Flossie (2001)
Hurricane Flossie reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between August 26, 2001 and September 2, 2001, with a lowest pressure of 972 mb. It killed 2 people in the United States, by the National Weather Service’s record.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Flossie, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2001 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- August 26, 2001 to September 2, 2001
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 972 mb (28.70 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 327 km (203 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 9.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 14 kt (16 mph)
- Identifier
- EP072001
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
2 deaths (2 direct, 0 indirect)$35,000
What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.
In the United States
NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.
- Deaths
- 2 (2 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $35,000
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 8 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2 | 2 | $35,000 | 8 |
What was recorded
3 flash flood, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 06:00 | 19.1N 108.5W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 26, 12:00 | 19.7N 109.7W | 30 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 26, 18:00 | 20.0N 110.6W | 35 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 27, 00:00 | 20.1N 111.6W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 27, 06:00 | 20.2N 112.5W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 27, 12:00 | 20.1N 113.3W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 27, 18:00 | 19.9N 113.8W | 65 kt | 989 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 00:00 | 19.5N 114.1W | 65 kt | 989 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 06:00 | 19.2N 114.3W | 65 kt | 989 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 12:00 | 19.1N 114.3W | 70 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 18:00 | 19.4N 114.7W | 70 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 00:00 | 19.8N 115.1W | 75 kt | 983 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 06:00 | 20.1N 115.4W | 80 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 12:00 | 20.6N 116.2W | 85 kt | 977 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 18:00 | 20.9N 116.6W | 90 kt | 972 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 00:00 | 21.5N 117.1W | 85 kt | 975 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 06:00 | 21.9N 117.7W | 80 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 12:00 | 22.4N 118.0W | 70 kt | 983 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 18:00 | 22.9N 118.1W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 00:00 | 23.4N 118.4W | 65 kt | 989 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 06:00 | 23.6N 118.6W | 60 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 31, 12:00 | 23.9N 118.9W | 55 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 31, 18:00 | 24.3N 119.2W | 50 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 1, 00:00 | 24.8N 119.3W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 1, 06:00 | 25.2N 119.1W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 1, 12:00 | 25.6N 118.9W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 1, 18:00 | 26.0N 118.6W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Sep 2, 00:00 | 26.6N 118.4W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2001
- Hurricane AdolphEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm BarbaraEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm CosmeEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm ErickEastern Pacific · 2001
- Hurricane DalilaEastern Pacific · 2001
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2001
- Hurricane GilEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm HenrietteEastern Pacific · 2001
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm IvoEastern Pacific · 2001
- Hurricane JulietteEastern Pacific · 2001 · 12 deaths · $400 million
- Hurricane KikoEastern Pacific · 2001
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm LorenaEastern Pacific · 2001
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2001
- Tropical Storm ManuelEastern Pacific · 2001
- Hurricane NardaEastern Pacific · 2001
- Hurricane OctaveEastern Pacific · 2001
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.