The 2002 season

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.

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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 areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
California00$23,0002

What was recorded

2 flood.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 23, 18:008.7N 153.8W20 kt1011 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 00:008.9N 154.0W20 kt1010 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 06:009.1N 154.2W20 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 12:009.3N 154.3W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Oct 24, 18:009.5N 154.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 00:009.8N 154.3W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 06:0010.0N 154.2W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 12:0010.3N 154.2W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 25, 18:0010.6N 154.6W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Oct 26, 00:0010.8N 154.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 06:0011.4N 155.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 12:0011.4N 155.7W40 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Oct 26, 18:0011.5N 156.3W45 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 00:0011.5N 156.8W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 06:0011.7N 157.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 12:0011.4N 157.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 27, 18:0012.2N 158.1W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 00:0012.3N 158.5W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 06:0012.5N 158.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 12:0012.7N 159.0W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 28, 18:0012.8N 160.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 29, 00:0012.8N 160.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 29, 06:0012.9N 160.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 29, 12:0013.2N 160.5W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 29, 18:0013.6N 160.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 30, 00:0014.0N 161.3W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 06:0014.0N 162.6W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 12:0013.8N 163.4W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 30, 18:0013.7N 164.3W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 00:0013.9N 165.3W60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Oct 31, 06:0013.8N 166.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 31, 12:0013.7N 166.9W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Oct 31, 18:0013.5N 168.1W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Nov 1, 00:0013.4N 169.2W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Nov 1, 06:0013.7N 170.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Nov 1, 12:0014.1N 171.4W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Nov 1, 18:0014.6N 172.0W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Nov 2, 00:0014.7N 172.6W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Nov 2, 06:0014.7N 173.5W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Nov 2, 12:0014.8N 174.2W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Nov 2, 18:0015.0N 175.2W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Nov 3, 00:0015.4N 176.6W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Nov 3, 06:0015.7N 179.1W75 kt981 mbHurricane
Nov 3, 12:0015.7N 179.6E75 kt981 mbTyphoon
Nov 3, 18:0016.1N 177.5E75 kt981 mbTyphoon
Nov 4, 00:0016.7N 174.9E70 kt984 mbTyphoon
Nov 4, 06:0017.5N 172.3E70 kt984 mbTyphoon
Nov 4, 12:0018.7N 169.9E70 kt984 mbTyphoon
Nov 4, 18:0019.8N 167.3E75 kt967 mbTyphoon
Nov 5, 00:0020.6N 165.4E70 kt972 mbTyphoon
Nov 5, 06:0021.7N 163.9E75 kt981 mbTyphoon
Nov 5, 12:0023.1N 163.1E70 kt984 mbTyphoon
Nov 5, 18:0024.3N 162.7E65 kt987 mbTyphoon
Nov 6, 00:0025.3N 162.8E65 kt976 mbTyphoon
Nov 6, 06:0025.9N 164.2E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 12:0026.8N 166.2E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 6, 18:0027.1N 168.9E55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 00:0027.6N 171.7E45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 06:0028.3N 174.7E35 kt997 mbTropical storm
Nov 7, 12:0029.6N 179.3E1006 mbExtratropical
Nov 7, 18:0031.3N 184.3EExtratropical

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 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.