Tropical Storm Ela (2015)

Basin

Eastern Pacific

Dates

July 7, 2015 to July 12, 2015

Peak strength

Tropical Storm, 40 kt (46 mph)

Lowest pressure

1002 mb (29.59 inHg)

Landfall

No; closest approach 213 km (132 mi)

Accumulated cyclone energy

0.8

Tropical-storm-force wind reached

90 nmi (167 km, 104 mi) from the center at its widest

Eyewall radius at its peak

30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi)

Overall size

250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar

Peak gust in the best track

45 kt (52 mph)

Fastest the center moved

17 kt (20 mph)

Identifier

EP042015

Radar at PHMO as it neared land, Jul 12, 12:00 UTC

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA’s Storm Events database, the record National Weather Service offices compile months after a storm, as compiled March 2026.

Deaths

0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)

Injuries

0

Property damage

none recorded

Crop damage

none recorded

Events recorded

10 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

What was recorded

10 high surf.

• Hurricane AndresEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4125 kt · 937 mb
• Hurricane BlancaEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4125 kt · 936 mb
• Hurricane CarlosEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 180 kt · 978 mb
• Hurricane HalolaEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 285 kt · 959 mb
• Tropical Storm IuneEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm35 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane DoloresEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4115 kt · 946 mb
• Tropical Storm EnriqueEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm45 kt · 1000 mb
• Tropical Storm FeliciaEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm35 kt · 1004 mb
• Hurricane GuillermoEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 295 kt · 967 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Depression30 kt · 1006 mb
• Hurricane HildaEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4125 kt · 937 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Depression30 kt · 1003 mb
• Hurricane KiloEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4120 kt · 940 mb
• Hurricane LokeEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 165 kt · 985 mb
• Hurricane IgnacioEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4125 kt · 942 mb
• Hurricane JimenaEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4135 kt · 932 mb
• Tropical Storm KevinEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm50 kt · 998 mb
• Hurricane LindaEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 3110 kt · 950 mb
• Tropical Storm MaliaEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm45 kt · 992 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Depression30 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm NialaEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm55 kt · 992 mb
• Hurricane MartyEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 170 kt · 987 mb
• Hurricane OhoEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 295 kt · 957 mb
• Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Depression30 kt · 1001 mb
• Tropical Storm NoraEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm60 kt · 993 mb
• Hurricane OlafEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4130 kt · 938 mb
• Hurricane PatriciaEastern Pacific · 2015 · $460 millionCat 5185 kt · 872 mb
• Tropical Storm RickEastern Pacific · 2015Tropical Storm35 kt · 1002 mb
• Hurricane SandraEastern Pacific · 2015Cat 4130 kt · 934 mb

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.

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.

• Tropical cyclone report, National Hurricane Center
• Best track as KMZ, National Hurricane Center
• Best track as a shapefile, National Hurricane Center