The 2006 season

Hurricane Bud (2006)

Hurricane Bud reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between July 11, 2006 and July 17, 2006, with a lowest pressure of 953 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Bud, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2006 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
July 11, 2006 to July 17, 2006
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
953 mb (28.14 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 891 km (554 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
9.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
75 nmi (139 km, 86 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
275 nmi (509 km, 316 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
135 kt (155 mph)
Fastest the center moved
18 kt (21 mph)
Identifier
EP032006

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 11, 00:0013.2N 110.3W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 11, 06:0013.5N 111.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 12:0013.8N 111.7W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 11, 18:0014.1N 112.6W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 12, 00:0014.4N 113.5W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 06:0014.8N 114.6W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 12:0015.4N 115.7W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jul 12, 18:0016.0N 116.9W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 00:0016.6N 118.2W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 06:0017.2N 119.8W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 12:0017.7N 121.3W100 kt959 mbHurricane
Jul 13, 18:0018.2N 122.7W90 kt966 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0018.6N 124.0W75 kt975 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0019.1N 125.3W60 kt985 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 12:0019.4N 126.5W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 14, 18:0019.7N 127.8W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 00:0019.9N 129.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 15, 06:0020.2N 130.7W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 12:0020.6N 132.2W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 15, 18:0021.0N 133.7W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 00:0021.5N 135.2W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 06:0022.0N 136.8W25 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Jul 16, 12:0022.5N 138.3W20 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 16, 18:0023.0N 139.8W20 kt1012 mbLow
Jul 17, 00:0023.5N 141.3W20 kt1013 mbLow
Jul 17, 06:0024.1N 143.0W20 kt1013 mbLow
Jul 17, 12:0024.8N 144.8W20 kt1013 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2006

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.