The 2015 season

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.

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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 areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Hawaii0123

What was recorded

23 high surf.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 23, 18:0012.3N 129.3W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 24, 00:0012.3N 129.5W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 24, 06:0012.5N 129.9W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 24, 12:0012.8N 130.3W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 24, 18:0013.0N 130.6W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 25, 00:0013.1N 131.1W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 06:0013.1N 131.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 12:0013.0N 132.2W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Aug 25, 18:0012.8N 132.8W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0012.4N 133.3W40 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0012.2N 134.1W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0012.0N 135.0W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0011.8N 135.9W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 27, 00:0012.0N 136.9W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 06:0012.3N 137.9W75 kt985 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 12:0012.6N 139.0W80 kt982 mbHurricane
Aug 27, 18:0012.9N 140.2W80 kt982 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 00:0013.3N 141.4W80 kt981 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 06:0013.7N 142.6W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 12:0014.1N 143.5W80 kt979 mbHurricane
Aug 28, 18:0014.5N 144.2W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 00:0014.9N 144.9W80 kt976 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 06:0015.2N 145.5W80 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 12:0015.7N 146.1W100 kt961 mbHurricane
Aug 29, 18:0016.1N 146.6W120 kt953 mbHurricane
Aug 30, 00:0016.6N 147.2W120 kt947 mbHurricane
Aug 30, 06:0017.1N 147.7W125 kt942 mbHurricane
Aug 30, 12:0017.9N 148.2W115 kt950 mbHurricane
Aug 30, 18:0018.6N 148.7W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 31, 00:0019.3N 149.2W100 kt961 mbHurricane
Aug 31, 06:0020.0N 149.8W100 kt963 mbHurricane
Aug 31, 12:0020.6N 150.5W90 kt965 mbHurricane
Aug 31, 18:0021.3N 151.2W90 kt968 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 00:0022.0N 151.9W85 kt971 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 06:0022.6N 152.6W80 kt973 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 12:0023.1N 153.3W75 kt975 mbHurricane
Sep 1, 18:0023.6N 154.1W65 kt981 mbHurricane
Sep 2, 00:0024.2N 155.0W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 06:0024.9N 155.8W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 12:0025.7N 156.7W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 2, 18:0026.4N 157.7W65 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 3, 00:0027.1N 158.9W65 kt981 mbHurricane
Sep 3, 06:0027.8N 160.1W65 kt981 mbHurricane
Sep 3, 12:0028.4N 161.1W65 kt982 mbHurricane
Sep 3, 18:0029.1N 162.1W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 00:0029.9N 162.9W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 06:0030.9N 163.5W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 12:0031.9N 163.9W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 4, 18:0033.3N 164.1W60 kt984 mbTropical storm
Sep 5, 00:0034.8N 164.4W55 kt985 mbLow
Sep 5, 06:0036.1N 164.8W55 kt986 mbLow
Sep 5, 12:0037.3N 165.0W55 kt986 mbLow
Sep 5, 18:0038.8N 165.0W55 kt986 mbLow
Sep 6, 00:0040.3N 165.0W55 kt988 mbLow
Sep 6, 06:0041.7N 165.0W50 kt992 mbLow
Sep 6, 12:0043.0N 165.0W45 kt996 mbLow
Sep 6, 18:0044.0N 165.0W45 kt998 mbLow
Sep 7, 00:0045.0N 164.0W45 kt998 mbLow
Sep 7, 06:0046.0N 161.5W45 kt998 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 12:0047.0N 159.0W45 kt996 mbExtratropical
Sep 7, 18:0048.0N 156.0W45 kt996 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 00:0049.5N 152.0W45 kt998 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 06:0051.0N 147.0W40 kt998 mbExtratropical
Sep 8, 12:0052.0N 143.0W40 kt998 mbExtratropical

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.