The 2005 season

Hurricane Fernanda (2005)

Hurricane Fernanda reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 9, 2005 and August 17, 2005, with a lowest pressure of 978 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Fernanda, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2005 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
August 9, 2005 to August 17, 2005
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
978 mb (28.88 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1073 km (667 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
40 nmi (74 km, 46 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
90 kt (104 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP062005

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 12:0014.0N 113.8W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 9, 18:0014.3N 114.8W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 00:0014.8N 115.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 06:0015.1N 116.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 12:0015.4N 118.0W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0015.6N 118.6W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0016.1N 119.6W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0016.3N 120.2W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 12:0016.7N 120.8W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 18:0017.1N 121.6W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 00:0017.6N 122.2W70 kt982 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 06:0017.9N 122.6W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 12:0018.3N 123.5W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 18:0018.6N 124.3W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 00:0018.8N 125.1W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 06:0019.1N 126.0W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 12:0019.2N 126.7W75 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 18:0019.2N 127.5W65 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 00:0019.2N 128.3W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 06:0019.0N 129.0W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0018.7N 129.6W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0018.3N 130.3W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 00:0017.9N 131.0W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0017.6N 131.8W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0017.3N 132.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0017.1N 133.7W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 00:0017.2N 134.6W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 16, 06:0017.1N 135.8W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 12:0017.0N 137.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 16, 18:0016.8N 138.0W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 00:0016.6N 139.0W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 17, 06:0016.5N 140.0W20 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 17, 12:0016.4N 141.0W20 kt1011 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2005

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.