Hurricane Huko (2002)
Hurricane Huko reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between October 23, 2002 and November 7, 2002, with a lowest pressure of 967 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Huko, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2002 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
- October 23, 2002 to November 7, 2002
- Peak strength
- Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 967 mb (28.56 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 776 km (482 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 19.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 46 kt (53 mph)
- Identifier
- CP032002
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$23,000
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
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $23,000
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 2 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 0 | 0 | $23,000 | 2 |
What was recorded
2 flood.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 18:00 | 8.7N 153.8W | 20 kt | 1011 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 24, 00:00 | 8.9N 154.0W | 20 kt | 1010 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 24, 06:00 | 9.1N 154.2W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 24, 12:00 | 9.3N 154.3W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 24, 18:00 | 9.5N 154.3W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 25, 00:00 | 9.8N 154.3W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 25, 06:00 | 10.0N 154.2W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 25, 12:00 | 10.3N 154.2W | 25 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 25, 18:00 | 10.6N 154.6W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 26, 00:00 | 10.8N 154.9W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 26, 06:00 | 11.4N 155.1W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 26, 12:00 | 11.4N 155.7W | 40 kt | 1009 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 26, 18:00 | 11.5N 156.3W | 45 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 27, 00:00 | 11.5N 156.8W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 27, 06:00 | 11.7N 157.6W | 50 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 27, 12:00 | 11.4N 157.7W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 27, 18:00 | 12.2N 158.1W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 28, 00:00 | 12.3N 158.5W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 28, 06:00 | 12.5N 158.8W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 28, 12:00 | 12.7N 159.0W | 60 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 28, 18:00 | 12.8N 160.0W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 00:00 | 12.8N 160.0W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 06:00 | 12.9N 160.4W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 12:00 | 13.2N 160.5W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 29, 18:00 | 13.6N 160.4W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 30, 00:00 | 14.0N 161.3W | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 30, 06:00 | 14.0N 162.6W | 55 kt | 996 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 30, 12:00 | 13.8N 163.4W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 30, 18:00 | 13.7N 164.3W | 55 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 31, 00:00 | 13.9N 165.3W | 60 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 31, 06:00 | 13.8N 166.2W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 31, 12:00 | 13.7N 166.9W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 31, 18:00 | 13.5N 168.1W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 1, 00:00 | 13.4N 169.2W | 65 kt | 990 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 1, 06:00 | 13.7N 170.3W | 65 kt | 987 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 1, 12:00 | 14.1N 171.4W | 75 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 1, 18:00 | 14.6N 172.0W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 2, 00:00 | 14.7N 172.6W | 75 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 2, 06:00 | 14.7N 173.5W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 2, 12:00 | 14.8N 174.2W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 2, 18:00 | 15.0N 175.2W | 75 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 3, 00:00 | 15.4N 176.6W | 75 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 3, 06:00 | 15.7N 179.1W | 75 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Nov 3, 12:00 | 15.7N 179.6E | 75 kt | 981 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 3, 18:00 | 16.1N 177.5E | 75 kt | 981 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 4, 00:00 | 16.7N 174.9E | 70 kt | 984 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 4, 06:00 | 17.5N 172.3E | 70 kt | 984 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 4, 12:00 | 18.7N 169.9E | 70 kt | 984 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 4, 18:00 | 19.8N 167.3E | 75 kt | 967 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 5, 00:00 | 20.6N 165.4E | 70 kt | 972 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 5, 06:00 | 21.7N 163.9E | 75 kt | 981 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 5, 12:00 | 23.1N 163.1E | 70 kt | 984 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 5, 18:00 | 24.3N 162.7E | 65 kt | 987 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 6, 00:00 | 25.3N 162.8E | 65 kt | 976 mb | Typhoon |
| Nov 6, 06:00 | 25.9N 164.2E | 60 kt | 990 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 6, 12:00 | 26.8N 166.2E | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 6, 18:00 | 27.1N 168.9E | 55 kt | 994 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 7, 00:00 | 27.6N 171.7E | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 7, 06:00 | 28.3N 174.7E | 35 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
| Nov 7, 12:00 | 29.6N 179.3E | 1006 mb | Extratropical | |
| Nov 7, 18:00 | 31.3N 184.3E | Extratropical |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2002
- Hurricane AlmaEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm BorisEastern Pacific · 2002
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm CristinaEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Depression KalmaegiEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane DouglasEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane ElidaEastern Pacific · 2002
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane FaustoEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm AlikaEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane EleEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm GenevieveEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane HernanEastern Pacific · 2002
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm IselleEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 2002
- Hurricane KennaEastern Pacific · 2002
- Tropical Storm LowellEastern Pacific · 2002
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2002
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.