The 2015 season

Hurricane Hilda (2015)

Hurricane Hilda reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between August 6, 2015 and August 14, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 937 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Hilda. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
August 6, 2015 to August 14, 2015
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
937 mb (27.67 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 312 km (194 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
17.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
110 nmi (204 km, 127 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
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
145 kt (167 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP102015

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)none recorded

What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 1 states and marine areas, in the United States only. Property and crop damage as each office estimated it, which is not a national loss total.

In the United States

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
3 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Hawaii003

What was recorded

3 high surf.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 6, 00:0012.4N 129.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 06:0012.5N 130.3W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 12:0012.6N 131.5W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 6, 18:0012.6N 132.8W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 00:0012.6N 133.9W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 06:0012.6N 135.0W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 12:0012.5N 136.3W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 7, 18:0012.6N 137.6W75 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 8, 00:0012.8N 139.0W100 kt967 mbHurricane
Aug 8, 06:0013.1N 140.3W100 kt966 mbHurricane
Aug 8, 12:0013.3N 141.5W110 kt953 mbHurricane
Aug 8, 18:0013.6N 142.8W125 kt937 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 00:0013.9N 144.0W120 kt946 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 06:0014.2N 145.2W115 kt950 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 12:0014.5N 146.2W100 kt963 mbHurricane
Aug 9, 18:0014.8N 147.1W95 kt964 mbHurricane
Aug 10, 00:0015.1N 147.9W90 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 10, 06:0015.5N 148.7W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 10, 12:0015.9N 149.4W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 10, 18:0016.2N 150.0W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 00:0016.6N 150.5W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 06:0016.8N 150.8W80 kt981 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 12:0017.0N 151.1W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Aug 11, 18:0017.0N 151.4W65 kt989 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 00:0017.1N 151.5W55 kt992 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0017.2N 151.5W50 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0017.4N 151.7W45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 18:0017.3N 151.8W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 00:0017.3N 152.2W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 06:0017.2N 152.4W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 12:0016.9N 153.3W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 13, 18:0016.5N 154.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 14, 00:0016.0N 155.3W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 14, 06:0015.7N 156.2W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 14, 12:0015.5N 157.7W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 14, 18:0015.2N 159.0W20 kt1008 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2015

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.