Hurricane Alma (2002)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

May 24, 2002 to June 1, 2002

Peak strength

Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)

Lowest pressure

960 mb (28.35 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 621 km (386 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

10.3

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)

Overall size

180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Fastest the center moved

13 kt (15 mph)

Identifier

EP012002

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

$100,000

Crop damage

$200,000

Events recorded

5 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning.

The strongest winds National Weather Service offices recorded with this storm. An estimated figure is a forecaster’s judgment from the damage, not an instrument reading.

• Tropical Storm BorisEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm50 kt · 997 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm CristinaEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm55 kt · 994 mb
• Tropical Depression KalmaegiEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Depression30 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane DouglasEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 290 kt · 970 mb
• Hurricane ElidaEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 5140 kt · 921 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Depression30 kt · 1008 mb
• Hurricane FaustoEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 4125 kt · 936 mb
• Tropical Storm AlikaEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm55 kt · 995 mb
• Hurricane EleEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 4115 kt · 927 mb
• Tropical Storm GenevieveEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm60 kt · 989 mb
• Hurricane HernanEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 5140 kt · 921 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Tropical Storm IselleEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm60 kt · 990 mb
• Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm40 kt · 1000 mb
• Hurricane KennaEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 5145 kt · 913 mb
• Tropical Storm LowellEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Storm45 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane HukoEastern Pacific · 2002Cat 175 kt · 967 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb

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.

• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live