The 2013 season

Hurricane Kiko (2013)

Hurricane Kiko reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 29, 2013 and September 4, 2013, with a lowest pressure of 989 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Kiko, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2013 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 29, 2013 to September 4, 2013
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
989 mb (29.21 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 460 km (286 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.1
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
225 nmi (417 km, 259 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
75 kt (86 mph)
Fastest the center moved
7 kt (8 mph)
Identifier
EP112013

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 29, 18:0015.0N 115.1W20 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 30, 00:0015.7N 115.1W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 30, 06:0016.4N 115.1W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 30, 12:0017.0N 115.2W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 30, 18:0017.6N 115.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 00:0018.0N 115.9W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 06:0018.4N 116.3W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 31, 12:0018.8N 116.4W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 31, 18:0019.2N 116.2W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 00:0019.7N 115.9W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Sep 1, 06:0020.3N 115.6W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 12:0021.0N 115.6W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 18:0021.7N 115.7W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 00:0022.3N 116.0W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0022.6N 116.2W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0022.8N 116.3W30 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 2, 18:0022.9N 116.5W30 kt1005 mbLow
Sep 3, 00:0022.8N 116.6W25 kt1006 mbLow
Sep 3, 06:0022.7N 116.5W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 3, 12:0022.7N 116.4W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 3, 18:0022.7N 116.2W20 kt1008 mbLow
Sep 4, 00:0022.6N 116.1W15 kt1009 mbLow
Sep 4, 06:0022.4N 116.1W15 kt1010 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2013

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.