The 2011 season

Hurricane Kenneth (2011)

Hurricane Kenneth reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between November 18, 2011 and November 26, 2011, with a lowest pressure of 940 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Kenneth. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
November 18, 2011 to November 26, 2011
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
940 mb (27.76 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 692 km (430 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
11.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 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
210 nmi (389 km, 242 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
150 kt (173 mph)
Fastest the center moved
20 kt (23 mph)
Identifier
EP132011

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 18, 12:009.2N 96.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Nov 18, 18:009.2N 97.0W25 kt1007 mbLow
Nov 19, 00:009.4N 97.7W25 kt1006 mbLow
Nov 19, 06:009.7N 98.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Nov 19, 12:009.9N 99.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Nov 19, 18:0010.1N 100.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 20, 00:0010.2N 101.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 20, 06:0010.4N 103.1W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Nov 20, 12:0010.8N 104.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Nov 20, 18:0011.5N 105.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 21, 00:0012.0N 106.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Nov 21, 06:0012.2N 107.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 21, 12:0012.6N 109.0W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Nov 21, 18:0013.0N 110.1W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Nov 22, 00:0013.0N 111.2W95 kt970 mbHurricane
Nov 22, 06:0013.0N 112.3W110 kt955 mbHurricane
Nov 22, 12:0012.9N 113.4W125 kt940 mbHurricane
Nov 22, 18:0012.6N 114.3W125 kt942 mbHurricane
Nov 23, 00:0012.5N 115.3W115 kt951 mbHurricane
Nov 23, 06:0012.5N 116.3W95 kt965 mbHurricane
Nov 23, 12:0012.7N 117.3W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Nov 23, 18:0013.0N 118.2W60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 00:0013.3N 119.1W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0013.4N 120.1W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0013.4N 121.1W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0013.4N 122.0W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0013.4N 122.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0013.3N 124.1W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Nov 25, 12:0013.2N 125.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Nov 25, 18:0013.1N 127.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 26, 00:0013.1N 129.1W20 kt1009 mbLow

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.