The 2014 season

Hurricane Karina (2014)

Hurricane Karina reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 12, 2014 and August 28, 2014, with a lowest pressure of 983 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Karina, 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
August 12, 2014 to August 28, 2014
Peak strength
Category 1, 75 kt (86 mph)
Lowest pressure
983 mb (29.03 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 391 km (243 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
70 nmi (130 km, 81 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
240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
85 kt (98 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP112014

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 12, 12:0015.1N 105.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 12, 18:0015.8N 106.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 13, 00:0016.4N 107.8W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 06:0016.9N 109.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 13, 12:0017.1N 110.6W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0017.2N 112.1W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 00:0017.2N 113.4W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 06:0017.1N 114.5W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 12:0017.0N 115.6W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 14, 18:0017.0N 116.7W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 00:0017.0N 117.8W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 06:0017.1N 118.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 12:0017.3N 119.7W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 15, 18:0017.5N 120.6W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 00:0017.7N 121.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 06:0018.0N 122.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 12:0018.0N 123.5W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 16, 18:0017.9N 124.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 00:0017.9N 125.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 06:0018.0N 126.6W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 12:0018.0N 127.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 17, 18:0017.8N 129.0W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 00:0017.6N 130.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 06:0017.3N 131.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 12:0016.9N 131.9W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 18, 18:0016.3N 132.6W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 00:0015.9N 133.0W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0015.7N 133.6W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0015.7N 134.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0015.7N 134.6W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0015.8N 135.1W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0015.9N 135.8W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0015.9N 136.4W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 18:0015.8N 136.6W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 00:0015.6N 136.8W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 06:0015.3N 136.9W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 12:0015.0N 136.9W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 21, 18:0014.8N 136.8W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0014.7N 136.5W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0014.7N 136.1W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0014.9N 135.7W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 18:0015.4N 135.3W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 00:0016.0N 135.0W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 06:0016.5N 134.7W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 12:0017.0N 134.3W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 18:0017.3N 133.8W70 kt984 mbHurricane
Aug 24, 00:0017.6N 133.2W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Aug 24, 06:0017.8N 132.6W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0017.9N 131.7W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0017.8N 130.7W45 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 00:0017.6N 129.7W40 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 06:0017.4N 128.8W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 25, 12:0017.4N 128.2W30 kt1002 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0017.4N 127.8W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 00:0017.2N 127.5W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 06:0017.0N 127.4W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 12:0016.8N 127.3W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 26, 18:0016.4N 127.3W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 27, 00:0015.9N 127.0W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 27, 06:0015.4N 126.4W25 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 27, 12:0015.1N 125.3W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 27, 18:0015.2N 124.0W25 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 28, 00:0016.3N 123.1W20 kt1006 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.