The 2009 season

Hurricane Guillermo (2009)

Hurricane Guillermo reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between August 9, 2009 and August 23, 2009, with a lowest pressure of 954 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Guillermo, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2009 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, 2009 to August 23, 2009
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
954 mb (28.17 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 688 km (428 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.5
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 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
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
135 kt (155 mph)
Fastest the center moved
38 kt (44 mph)
Identifier
EP102009

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.

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
9 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Hawaii009

What was recorded

9 high surf.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 18:009.5N 97.8W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 00:0010.0N 99.6W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 06:0010.4N 101.3W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 12:0010.8N 103.0W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 10, 18:0012.3N 106.5W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 00:0012.3N 107.8W25 kt1010 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 06:0012.5N 109.0W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 12:0012.8N 110.0W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 11, 18:0013.3N 111.1W25 kt1009 mbDisturbance
Aug 12, 00:0013.8N 112.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 12, 06:0014.4N 113.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 12, 12:0015.0N 115.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 12, 18:0015.6N 117.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 00:0016.1N 118.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0016.5N 119.9W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0016.8N 121.2W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0017.0N 122.5W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0017.2N 123.8W60 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0017.4N 125.2W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 12:0017.6N 126.7W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 18:0017.9N 128.2W85 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 00:0018.2N 129.7W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 06:0018.5N 131.2W100 kt960 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 12:0018.7N 132.6W110 kt954 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 18:0019.0N 133.9W100 kt958 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 00:0019.3N 135.3W95 kt960 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 06:0019.6N 136.7W90 kt964 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 12:0019.9N 138.0W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 18:0020.2N 139.2W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 00:0020.4N 140.5W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 06:0020.7N 142.0W55 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0021.1N 143.7W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0021.7N 145.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0022.6N 146.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0023.7N 148.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0025.1N 149.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0026.4N 150.3W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0027.7N 151.5W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0028.7N 152.8W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0029.5N 154.1W35 kt1009 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0030.4N 155.3W30 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 20, 00:0031.3N 156.3W30 kt1014 mbLow
Aug 20, 06:0032.1N 157.1W30 kt1016 mbLow
Aug 20, 12:0033.2N 157.5W40 kt1015 mbExtratropical
Aug 20, 18:0034.3N 157.6W40 kt1015 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 00:0035.1N 157.5W40 kt1015 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 06:0035.6N 157.4W35 kt1017 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 12:0036.0N 157.2W30 kt1019 mbExtratropical
Aug 21, 18:0036.4N 157.0W30 kt1020 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 00:0036.8N 156.8W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 06:0037.2N 156.6W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 12:0037.6N 156.3W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical
Aug 22, 18:0038.2N 155.8W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical
Aug 23, 00:0038.9N 154.9W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical
Aug 23, 06:0039.7N 153.7W30 kt1021 mbExtratropical

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2009

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.