The 2015 season

Hurricane Oho (2015)

Hurricane Oho reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between October 1, 2015 and October 10, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 957 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Oho, 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
October 1, 2015 to October 10, 2015
Peak strength
Category 2, 95 kt (109 mph)
Lowest pressure
957 mb (28.26 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
660 nmi (1222 km, 760 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi)
Overall size
480 nmi (889 km, 552 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
115 kt (132 mph)
Fastest the center moved
81 kt (93 mph)
Identifier
CP072015

Radar at PACG as it neared land, Oct 9, 18:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Oct 1, 06:0012.8N 159.5W20 kt1005 mbDisturbance
Oct 1, 12:0013.0N 159.2W25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 1, 18:0013.1N 158.8W25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 2, 00:0013.2N 158.0W25 kt1004 mbDisturbance
Oct 2, 06:0012.9N 157.4W25 kt1004 mbLow
Oct 2, 12:0012.7N 156.9W25 kt1003 mbLow
Oct 2, 18:0012.4N 156.3W25 kt1002 mbLow
Oct 3, 00:0012.4N 155.8W30 kt1001 mbLow
Oct 3, 06:0012.5N 155.4W30 kt1001 mbTropical depression
Oct 3, 12:0012.6N 155.2W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 3, 18:0012.7N 155.0W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 00:0012.9N 154.5W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 06:0013.1N 154.6W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 12:0013.2N 154.8W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 4, 18:0013.3N 154.9W35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 00:0013.5N 154.8W40 kt996 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 06:0013.7N 154.7W45 kt989 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 12:0014.0N 154.5W50 kt986 mbTropical storm
Oct 5, 18:0014.5N 154.0W55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 00:0014.7N 153.7W55 kt984 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 06:0014.9N 153.1W60 kt982 mbTropical storm
Oct 6, 12:0015.1N 151.9W65 kt980 mbHurricane
Oct 6, 18:0015.9N 150.7W75 kt975 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 00:0017.1N 149.4W80 kt971 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 06:0019.1N 147.9W90 kt962 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 12:0021.9N 146.6W95 kt957 mbHurricane
Oct 7, 18:0025.0N 145.1W90 kt966 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 00:0028.8N 145.2W75 kt973 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 06:0030.8N 144.1W65 kt978 mbHurricane
Oct 8, 12:0033.3N 142.5W60 kt983 mbExtratropical
Oct 8, 18:0037.0N 139.5W55 kt985 mbExtratropical
Oct 9, 00:0045.0N 141.5W45 kt987 mbExtratropical
Oct 9, 06:0049.0N 137.0W50 kt982 mbExtratropical
Oct 9, 12:0053.0N 137.0W65 kt971 mbExtratropical
Oct 9, 18:0056.0N 138.0W55 kt962 mbExtratropical
Oct 10, 00:0057.5N 139.0W40 kt964 mbExtratropical
Oct 10, 06:0059.5N 142.0W35 kt969 mbExtratropical
Oct 10, 12:0063.0N 138.0W25 kt981 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.

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