The 2015 season

Hurricane Loke (2015)

Hurricane Loke reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between August 19, 2015 and August 26, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 985 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Loke, 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 19, 2015 to August 26, 2015
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
985 mb (29.09 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1532 km (952 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
4.9
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
32 kt (37 mph)
Identifier
CP042015

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 19, 00:0013.4N 176.8W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 06:0013.5N 177.8W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 12:0013.7N 178.6W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 19, 18:0013.4N 179.3W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 00:0013.4N 179.0W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 06:0013.6N 178.6W20 kt1007 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 12:0013.9N 178.3W25 kt1006 mbDisturbance
Aug 20, 18:0014.3N 177.9W25 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Aug 21, 00:0014.8N 177.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 06:0015.3N 177.3W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 12:0015.7N 177.2W30 kt1003 mbTropical depression
Aug 21, 18:0016.1N 177.2W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 00:0016.5N 177.3W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 06:0016.8N 177.5W35 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 22, 12:0017.2N 177.9W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 22, 18:0017.8N 178.5W30 kt1004 mbTropical depression
Aug 23, 00:0018.4N 179.0W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0019.1N 179.3W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0020.0N 179.6W35 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 18:0021.2N 179.7W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 00:0022.4N 179.4W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 06:0023.5N 178.8W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 12:0024.4N 177.9W60 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 24, 18:0025.3N 176.7W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 25, 00:0026.4N 175.4W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 25, 06:0027.6N 173.9W65 kt986 mbHurricane
Aug 25, 12:0028.8N 173.1W65 kt985 mbHurricane
Aug 25, 18:0030.1N 173.0W60 kt986 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 00:0031.3N 173.5W55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 06:0032.5N 174.4W55 kt988 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 12:0034.5N 176.3W50 kt991 mbTropical storm
Aug 26, 18:0036.6N 179.2W50 kt991 mbTropical storm

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.

The National Hurricane Center has published no tropical cyclone report for this storm.