The 2014 season

Hurricane Hernan (2014)

Hurricane Hernan reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 26, 2014 and July 31, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Hernan, 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
July 26, 2014 to July 31, 2014
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 522 km (324 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
3.0
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP082014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 26, 00:0012.3N 104.9W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 26, 06:0013.3N 105.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 12:0014.3N 106.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 26, 18:0015.1N 107.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0015.8N 108.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0016.6N 109.5W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 12:0017.5N 110.6W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 18:0018.3N 111.7W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 00:0019.0N 112.8W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Jul 28, 06:0019.6N 114.0W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 12:0020.3N 115.3W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Jul 28, 18:0021.0N 116.7W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 00:0021.8N 118.0W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 06:0022.5N 119.3W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0023.2N 120.4W30 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 29, 18:0023.8N 121.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 30, 00:0024.1N 122.4W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 30, 06:0024.3N 123.2W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 30, 12:0024.7N 123.9W25 kt1010 mbLow
Jul 30, 18:0025.1N 124.5W25 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 31, 00:0025.3N 125.2W20 kt1012 mbLow
Jul 31, 06:0025.3N 125.9W20 kt1012 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.