The 2011 season

Hurricane Jova (2011)

Hurricane Jova reached Category 3 in the Eastern Pacific between October 5, 2011 and October 12, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 955 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Jova, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2011 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
October 5, 2011 to October 12, 2011
Peak strength
Category 3, 110 kt (127 mph)
Lowest pressure
955 mb (28.20 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
14.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
105 nmi (194 km, 121 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
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
135 kt (155 mph)
Fastest the center moved
11 kt (13 mph)
Identifier
EP102011

Deaths and damage

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

Landfall

Time (UTC)WherePositionWindPressure
Oct 12, 06:00Cihuatlán, Jalisco, Mexico, 69 km away19.6N 105.1W85 kt (98 mph)975 mb

Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 5, 12:009.7N 102.8W25 kt1009 mbLow
Oct 5, 18:0010.0N 103.7W25 kt1006 mbLow
Oct 6, 00:0010.5N 104.6W25 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 6, 06:0011.1N 105.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 6, 12:0011.6N 106.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Oct 6, 18:0012.1N 107.1W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 00:0012.6N 108.1W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 06:0013.1N 109.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 12:0013.7N 109.9W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Oct 7, 18:0014.4N 110.3W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 00:0015.1N 110.5W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 06:0015.5N 110.6W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 12:0015.6N 110.6W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Oct 8, 18:0015.8N 110.4W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 00:0016.0N 110.0W70 kt986 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 06:0016.1N 109.5W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 12:0016.1N 108.9W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Oct 9, 18:0016.1N 108.3W80 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 00:0016.2N 107.7W90 kt969 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 06:0016.3N 107.2W100 kt964 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 12:0016.4N 106.8W105 kt961 mbHurricane
Oct 10, 18:0016.5N 106.5W110 kt955 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 00:0016.8N 106.2W105 kt958 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 06:0017.2N 105.9W100 kt962 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 12:0017.5N 105.7W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Oct 11, 18:0017.9N 105.5W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 00:0018.6N 105.3W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 06:00 landfall19.6N 105.1W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 12, 12:0020.6N 104.9W60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Oct 12, 18:0021.3N 104.5W30 kt1000 mbTropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2011

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.