Hurricane Amanda (2014)

Hurricane Amanda reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between May 22, 2014 and May 29, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 932 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Amanda, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2014 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: May 22, 2014 to May 29, 2014
Peak strength: Category 4, 135 kt (155 mph)
Lowest pressure: 932 mb (27.52 inHg)
Landfall: No; closest approach 649 km (403 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy: 18.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached: 80 nmi (148 km, 92 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: 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size: 250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track: 165 kt (190 mph)
Fastest the center moved: 9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier: EP012014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)	Position	Wind	Pressure	Status
May 22, 06:00	10.1N 106.4W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
May 22, 12:00	10.2N 106.8W	25 kt	1007 mb	Low
May 22, 18:00	10.3N 107.2W	25 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
May 23, 00:00	10.5N 107.6W	25 kt	1007 mb	Tropical depression
May 23, 06:00	10.7N 108.0W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
May 23, 12:00	10.8N 108.3W	30 kt	1006 mb	Tropical depression
May 23, 18:00	10.9N 108.6W	35 kt	1005 mb	Tropical storm
May 24, 00:00	11.0N 109.0W	45 kt	1002 mb	Tropical storm
May 24, 06:00	11.1N 109.4W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
May 24, 12:00	11.2N 109.8W	65 kt	989 mb	Hurricane
May 24, 18:00	11.3N 110.1W	75 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
May 25, 00:00	11.5N 110.5W	90 kt	973 mb	Hurricane
May 25, 06:00	11.6N 110.8W	120 kt	946 mb	Hurricane
May 25, 12:00	11.7N 111.1W	135 kt	932 mb	Hurricane
May 25, 18:00	12.0N 111.2W	135 kt	933 mb	Hurricane
May 26, 00:00	12.3N 111.3W	125 kt	941 mb	Hurricane
May 26, 06:00	12.7N 111.5W	120 kt	945 mb	Hurricane
May 26, 12:00	12.9N 111.6W	115 kt	949 mb	Hurricane
May 26, 18:00	13.2N 111.8W	110 kt	953 mb	Hurricane
May 27, 00:00	13.5N 111.9W	105 kt	958 mb	Hurricane
May 27, 06:00	14.0N 112.1W	100 kt	962 mb	Hurricane
May 27, 12:00	14.2N 112.4W	95 kt	966 mb	Hurricane
May 27, 18:00	14.5N 112.7W	85 kt	972 mb	Hurricane
May 28, 00:00	14.5N 112.6W	75 kt	983 mb	Hurricane
May 28, 06:00	14.6N 112.5W	65 kt	989 mb	Hurricane
May 28, 12:00	14.9N 112.2W	55 kt	996 mb	Tropical storm
May 28, 18:00	15.7N 111.8W	50 kt	999 mb	Tropical storm
May 29, 00:00	16.1N 111.5W	45 kt	1001 mb	Tropical storm
May 29, 06:00	16.3N 110.9W	35 kt	1003 mb	Tropical storm
May 29, 12:00	16.2N 110.2W	30 kt	1004 mb	Tropical depression

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2014

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.