Hurricane Dora (2011)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

July 18, 2011 to July 26, 2011

Peak strength

Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)

Lowest pressure

929 mb (27.43 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 107 km (66 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

15.5

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

120 nmi (222 km, 138 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

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

165 kt (190 mph)

Fastest the center moved

16 kt (18 mph)

Identifier

EP042011

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

• Hurricane AdrianEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 4120 kt · 944 mb
• Hurricane BeatrizEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 180 kt · 977 mb
• Hurricane CalvinEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 170 kt · 984 mb
• Hurricane EugeneEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 4120 kt · 942 mb
• Tropical Storm FernandaEastern Pacific · 2011Tropical Storm60 kt · 992 mb
• Hurricane GregEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 175 kt · 979 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2011Tropical Depression30 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane HilaryEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 4125 kt · 942 mb
• Hurricane IrwinEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 285 kt · 976 mb
• Hurricane JovaEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 3110 kt · 955 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2011Tropical Depression30 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane KennethEastern Pacific · 2011Cat 4125 kt · 940 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Every advisory and discussion NHC issued while it was live
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Wikipedia article: Hurricane Dora