Hurricane Ignacio (2003)
Hurricane Ignacio reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between August 22, 2003 and August 27, 2003, with a lowest pressure of 970 mb, and made landfall.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Ignacio, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2003 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 22, 2003 to August 27, 2003
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 970 mb (28.64 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.7
- 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
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Fastest the center moved
- 7 kt (8 mph)
- Identifier
- EP092003
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
NOAA Storm Events
0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded
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.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 18:00 | La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 23 km away | 24.2N 110.1W | 70 kt (81 mph) | 985 mb |
Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.
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
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 5 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 0 | 0 | 5 |
What was recorded
5 lightning.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 12:00 | 20.5N 107.0W | 30 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 22, 18:00 | 20.7N 107.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 23, 00:00 | 21.0N 107.5W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 23, 06:00 | 21.3N 107.8W | 40 kt | 1002 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 23, 12:00 | 21.5N 108.2W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 23, 18:00 | 21.8N 108.6W | 55 kt | 992 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 24, 00:00 | 22.2N 108.7W | 60 kt | 989 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 24, 06:00 | 22.6N 108.8W | 70 kt | 984 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 24, 12:00 | 23.1N 108.9W | 90 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 24, 18:00 | 23.5N 109.0W | 90 kt | 970 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 25, 00:00 | 23.7N 109.2W | 85 kt | 973 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 25, 06:00 | 23.9N 109.5W | 80 kt | 976 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 25, 12:00 | 24.1N 109.8W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 25, 18:00 landfall | 24.2N 110.1W | 70 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 26, 00:00 | 24.4N 110.4W | 65 kt | 989 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 26, 06:00 | 24.6N 110.8W | 60 kt | 991 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 12:00 | 24.9N 111.0W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 18:00 | 25.2N 111.3W | 30 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 27, 00:00 | 25.5N 111.6W | 30 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 27, 06:00 | 25.9N 112.1W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 27, 12:00 | 26.4N 112.5W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 27, 18:00 | 26.9N 113.0W | 20 kt | 1008 mb | Tropical depression |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2003
- Tropical Storm YanyanEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm AndresEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm BlancaEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm CarlosEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm DoloresEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm EnriqueEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm FeliciaEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm GuillermoEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm HildaEastern Pacific · 2003
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane JimenaEastern Pacific · 2003
- Tropical Storm KevinEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane LindaEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane MartyEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane NoraEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane OlafEastern Pacific · 2003
- Hurricane PatriciaEastern Pacific · 2003
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.