Hurricane Ignacio (2015)
Hurricane Ignacio reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between August 23, 2015 and September 8, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 942 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Ignacio, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2015 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- August 23, 2015 to September 8, 2015
- Peak strength
- Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 942 mb (27.82 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 366 km (227 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 25.5
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 300 nmi (556 km, 345 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
- Overall size
- 240 nmi (444 km, 276 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 150 kt (173 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 35 kt (40 mph)
- Identifier
- EP122015
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
- 1
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 23 in 2 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 0 | 1 | 23 |
What was recorded
23 high surf.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 18:00 | 12.3N 129.3W | 25 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 00:00 | 12.3N 129.5W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 06:00 | 12.5N 129.9W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 12:00 | 12.8N 130.3W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Aug 24, 18:00 | 13.0N 130.6W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Aug 25, 00:00 | 13.1N 131.1W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 25, 06:00 | 13.1N 131.6W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 25, 12:00 | 13.0N 132.2W | 30 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 25, 18:00 | 12.8N 132.8W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 00:00 | 12.4N 133.3W | 40 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 06:00 | 12.2N 134.1W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 12:00 | 12.0N 135.0W | 50 kt | 999 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 26, 18:00 | 11.8N 135.9W | 55 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 27, 00:00 | 12.0N 136.9W | 65 kt | 992 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 27, 06:00 | 12.3N 137.9W | 75 kt | 985 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 27, 12:00 | 12.6N 139.0W | 80 kt | 982 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 27, 18:00 | 12.9N 140.2W | 80 kt | 982 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 00:00 | 13.3N 141.4W | 80 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 06:00 | 13.7N 142.6W | 80 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 12:00 | 14.1N 143.5W | 80 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 28, 18:00 | 14.5N 144.2W | 80 kt | 978 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 00:00 | 14.9N 144.9W | 80 kt | 976 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 06:00 | 15.2N 145.5W | 80 kt | 974 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 12:00 | 15.7N 146.1W | 100 kt | 961 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 29, 18:00 | 16.1N 146.6W | 120 kt | 953 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 00:00 | 16.6N 147.2W | 120 kt | 947 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 06:00 | 17.1N 147.7W | 125 kt | 942 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 12:00 | 17.9N 148.2W | 115 kt | 950 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 30, 18:00 | 18.6N 148.7W | 105 kt | 959 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 00:00 | 19.3N 149.2W | 100 kt | 961 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 06:00 | 20.0N 149.8W | 100 kt | 963 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 12:00 | 20.6N 150.5W | 90 kt | 965 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 31, 18:00 | 21.3N 151.2W | 90 kt | 968 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 1, 00:00 | 22.0N 151.9W | 85 kt | 971 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 1, 06:00 | 22.6N 152.6W | 80 kt | 973 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 1, 12:00 | 23.1N 153.3W | 75 kt | 975 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 1, 18:00 | 23.6N 154.1W | 65 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 2, 00:00 | 24.2N 155.0W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 2, 06:00 | 24.9N 155.8W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 2, 12:00 | 25.7N 156.7W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 2, 18:00 | 26.4N 157.7W | 65 kt | 982 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 3, 00:00 | 27.1N 158.9W | 65 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 3, 06:00 | 27.8N 160.1W | 65 kt | 981 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 3, 12:00 | 28.4N 161.1W | 65 kt | 982 mb | Hurricane |
| Sep 3, 18:00 | 29.1N 162.1W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 4, 00:00 | 29.9N 162.9W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 4, 06:00 | 30.9N 163.5W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 4, 12:00 | 31.9N 163.9W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 4, 18:00 | 33.3N 164.1W | 60 kt | 984 mb | Tropical storm |
| Sep 5, 00:00 | 34.8N 164.4W | 55 kt | 985 mb | Low |
| Sep 5, 06:00 | 36.1N 164.8W | 55 kt | 986 mb | Low |
| Sep 5, 12:00 | 37.3N 165.0W | 55 kt | 986 mb | Low |
| Sep 5, 18:00 | 38.8N 165.0W | 55 kt | 986 mb | Low |
| Sep 6, 00:00 | 40.3N 165.0W | 55 kt | 988 mb | Low |
| Sep 6, 06:00 | 41.7N 165.0W | 50 kt | 992 mb | Low |
| Sep 6, 12:00 | 43.0N 165.0W | 45 kt | 996 mb | Low |
| Sep 6, 18:00 | 44.0N 165.0W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Low |
| Sep 7, 00:00 | 45.0N 164.0W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Low |
| Sep 7, 06:00 | 46.0N 161.5W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 7, 12:00 | 47.0N 159.0W | 45 kt | 996 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 7, 18:00 | 48.0N 156.0W | 45 kt | 996 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 8, 00:00 | 49.5N 152.0W | 45 kt | 998 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 8, 06:00 | 51.0N 147.0W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Extratropical |
| Sep 8, 12:00 | 52.0N 143.0W | 40 kt | 998 mb | Extratropical |
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- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015
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- Hurricane LokeEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane JimenaEastern Pacific · 2015
- Tropical Storm KevinEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane LindaEastern Pacific · 2015
- Tropical Storm MaliaEastern Pacific · 2015
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015
- Tropical Storm NialaEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane MartyEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane OhoEastern Pacific · 2015
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2015
- Tropical Storm NoraEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane OlafEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane PatriciaEastern Pacific · 2015 · $460 million
- Tropical Storm RickEastern Pacific · 2015
- Hurricane SandraEastern Pacific · 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.