Hurricane Javier (2004)

Hurricane Javier reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between September 10, 2004 and September 20, 2004, with a lowest pressure of 930 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Javier, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2004 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: September 10, 2004 to September 20, 2004
Peak strength: Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure: 930 mb (27.46 inHg)
Landfall: Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy: 27.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 110 nmi (204 km, 127 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached: 55 nmi (102 km, 63 mi) from the center at its widest
Peak gust in the best track: 155 kt (178 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier: EP132004

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads carries a casualty or damage figure for this storm.

Landfall

Time (UTC)	Where	Position	Wind	Pressure
Sep 19, 11:00	Coast unnamed here	26.6N 113.0W	25 kt (29 mph)	1003 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.

Rainfall

The Weather Prediction Center attributes 1,855 rain gauge totals over the contiguous United States to this storm. The wettest reached 7.00 inches (178 mm).

Station	Total	Position
WALNUT CREEK AZ	7.00 in (178 mm)	34.93N 112.82W
PROMONTORY AZ	5.20 in (132 mm)	34.37N 110.03W
HAPPY JACK AZ	5.00 in (127 mm)	34.75N 111.40W
MUNDS PARK AZ	4.41 in (112 mm)	34.93N 111.64W
BEARTOWN CO	4.30 in (109 mm)	37.72N 107.51W
PINE_19N AZ	4.27 in (108 mm)	34.67N 111.40W
BAGDAD_10NW AZ	4.24 in (108 mm)	34.75N 113.30W
WOLF CREEK SUMMIT CO	4.20 in (107 mm)	37.48N 106.80W
CAMP_WOOD AZ	4.18 in (106 mm)	34.80N 112.88W
DIMMITT 2N TX	4.15 in (105 mm)	34.59N 102.31W
PAYSON_17NE AZ	3.95 in (100 mm)	34.38N 111.10W
TUSAYAN AZ	3.72 in (94 mm)	35.99N 112.12W

WPC’s storm rainfall file, 1900 to 2020, compiled by David Roth.

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
Sep 10, 18:00	11.2N 93.5W	30 kt	1005 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 00:00	11.4N 95.3W	30 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 06:00	11.6N 96.6W	30 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 11, 12:00	11.7N 97.8W	35 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 11, 18:00	11.9N 99.2W	40 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 00:00	12.0N 100.4W	45 kt	1000 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 06:00	12.2N 101.4W	55 kt	994 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 12:00	12.5N 102.4W	60 kt	991 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 12, 18:00	13.1N 103.4W	65 kt	987 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 00:00	13.6N 104.0W	75 kt	979 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 06:00	14.1N 104.8W	90 kt	970 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 12:00	14.7N 105.4W	105 kt	957 mb	Hurricane
Sep 13, 18:00	15.2N 106.1W	120 kt	942 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 00:00	15.9N 106.8W	130 kt	930 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 06:00	16.3N 107.2W	125 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 12:00	16.6N 107.5W	125 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Sep 14, 18:00	17.0N 107.7W	125 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 00:00	17.4N 108.0W	125 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 06:00	17.7N 108.3W	125 kt	936 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 12:00	18.1N 108.6W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Sep 15, 18:00	18.5N 109.0W	115 kt	948 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 00:00	18.9N 109.5W	110 kt	950 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 06:00	19.1N 110.0W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 12:00	19.4N 110.4W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 16, 18:00	19.8N 110.9W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 00:00	20.5N 111.2W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 06:00	21.0N 111.6W	100 kt	960 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 12:00	21.5N 111.9W	95 kt	962 mb	Hurricane
Sep 17, 18:00	21.9N 112.1W	90 kt	965 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 00:00	22.4N 112.4W	75 kt	970 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 06:00	23.0N 112.8W	65 kt	975 mb	Hurricane
Sep 18, 12:00	23.3N 113.2W	50 kt	987 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 18, 18:00	23.9N 113.4W	45 kt	995 mb	Tropical storm
Sep 19, 00:00	24.8N 113.5W	30 kt	1001 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 19, 06:00	25.7N 113.2W	30 kt	1001 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 19, 11:00 landfall	26.6N 113.0W	25 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 19, 12:00	26.9N 112.7W	25 kt	1003 mb	Tropical depression
Sep 19, 18:00	28.5N 112.0W	20 kt	1003 mb	Low
Sep 20, 00:00	30.0N 111.3W	20 kt	1004 mb	Low

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2004

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.