The 2014 season

Hurricane Cristina (2014)

Hurricane Cristina reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between June 9, 2014 and June 19, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 935 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Cristina, 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.

Open the live map with storms, cones and warnings

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
June 9, 2014 to June 19, 2014
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
935 mb (27.61 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 204 km (127 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.7
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
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
150 kt (173 mph)
Fastest the center moved
9 kt (10 mph)
Identifier
EP032014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 9, 00:0014.8N 101.3W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 9, 06:0015.0N 101.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 9, 12:0015.2N 101.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 9, 18:0015.4N 101.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 10, 00:0015.6N 101.8W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 10, 06:0015.5N 102.2W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 12:0015.4N 102.6W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jun 10, 18:0015.3N 103.0W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 00:0015.3N 103.4W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jun 11, 06:0015.3N 103.9W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Jun 11, 12:0015.4N 104.4W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Jun 11, 18:0015.6N 104.9W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Jun 12, 00:0015.8N 105.4W85 kt975 mbHurricane
Jun 12, 06:0016.1N 106.1W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Jun 12, 12:0016.4N 106.8W130 kt935 mbHurricane
Jun 12, 18:0016.7N 107.5W125 kt940 mbHurricane
Jun 13, 00:0017.0N 108.1W110 kt955 mbHurricane
Jun 13, 06:0017.4N 108.8W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Jun 13, 12:0017.8N 109.5W85 kt973 mbHurricane
Jun 13, 18:0018.3N 110.1W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Jun 14, 00:0018.7N 110.5W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Jun 14, 06:0019.0N 110.8W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Jun 14, 12:0019.3N 111.2W60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Jun 14, 18:0019.5N 111.6W50 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 00:0019.7N 112.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jun 15, 06:0019.9N 112.5W35 kt1003 mbLow
Jun 15, 12:0020.1N 113.0W30 kt1004 mbLow
Jun 15, 18:0020.4N 113.5W30 kt1005 mbLow
Jun 16, 00:0020.7N 114.1W30 kt1005 mbLow
Jun 16, 06:0021.1N 114.8W30 kt1005 mbLow
Jun 16, 12:0021.6N 115.6W25 kt1005 mbLow
Jun 16, 18:0022.1N 116.4W25 kt1005 mbLow
Jun 17, 00:0022.5N 116.9W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jun 17, 06:0022.7N 117.2W20 kt1006 mbLow
Jun 17, 12:0022.8N 117.6W15 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 17, 18:0023.0N 117.8W15 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 18, 00:0023.1N 117.5W15 kt1008 mbLow
Jun 18, 06:0023.0N 117.2W15 kt1009 mbLow
Jun 18, 12:0022.8N 117.0W15 kt1010 mbLow
Jun 18, 18:0022.5N 116.8W15 kt1010 mbLow
Jun 19, 00:0022.2N 116.6W15 kt1010 mbLow

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.