The 2008 season

Hurricane Boris (2008)

Hurricane Boris reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between June 27, 2008 and July 6, 2008, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Boris, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2008 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
June 27, 2008 to July 6, 2008
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 830 km (516 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.7
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP022008

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 27, 06:0012.2N 107.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 27, 12:0012.6N 108.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0013.0N 109.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0013.5N 110.5W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 06:0014.0N 111.5W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0014.4N 112.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0014.7N 113.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0014.9N 114.2W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0015.0N 115.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 12:0014.9N 115.8W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 18:0014.8N 116.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 00:0014.8N 117.9W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 06:0014.9N 119.0W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 12:0014.9N 120.2W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jun 30, 18:0014.8N 121.4W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 1, 00:0014.7N 122.5W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 06:0014.6N 123.5W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 12:0014.7N 124.3W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Jul 1, 18:0014.9N 125.0W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Jul 2, 00:0015.3N 125.6W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 06:0015.7N 126.2W70 kt985 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 12:0016.2N 126.9W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 2, 18:0016.6N 127.4W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 00:0016.9N 127.9W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 06:0017.2N 128.4W50 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 12:0017.3N 129.0W40 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 3, 18:0017.3N 129.6W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 4, 00:0017.2N 130.2W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 06:0017.1N 130.8W25 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Jul 4, 12:0017.0N 131.5W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 4, 18:0016.8N 132.4W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 5, 00:0016.5N 133.2W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 5, 06:0016.2N 134.0W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 5, 12:0016.0N 135.0W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 5, 18:0016.0N 136.2W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 6, 00:0015.9N 137.2W20 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 6, 06:0015.8N 138.0W20 kt1008 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2008

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.