The 2015 season

Hurricane Sandra (2015)

Hurricane Sandra reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between November 23, 2015 and November 29, 2015, with a lowest pressure of 934 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Sandra, 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
November 23, 2015 to November 29, 2015
Peak strength
Category 4, 130 kt (150 mph)
Lowest pressure
934 mb (27.58 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 23 km (14 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
12.6
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
140 nmi (259 km, 161 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
35 nmi (65 km, 40 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
5 nmi (9 km, 6 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
150 kt (173 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP222015

Deaths and damage

The sources count different things and are not added together.

NOAA Storm Events

0 deaths (0 direct, 0 indirect)$25,000

What National Weather Service offices recorded county by county in 3 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
$25,000
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
10 in 3 reports from 3 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Oklahoma00$10,0004
Texas00$10,0004
Arkansas00$5,0002

What was recorded

10 flash flood.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Nov 23, 12:0010.9N 100.5W25 kt1006 mbLow
Nov 23, 18:0010.8N 102.0W30 kt1005 mbTropical depression
Nov 24, 00:0010.8N 103.3W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 06:0010.9N 104.4W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 12:0011.2N 105.5W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Nov 24, 18:0011.5N 106.6W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Nov 25, 00:0011.8N 107.6W60 kt996 mbTropical storm
Nov 25, 06:0012.1N 108.5W70 kt989 mbHurricane
Nov 25, 12:0012.3N 109.3W85 kt976 mbHurricane
Nov 25, 18:0012.7N 109.7W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Nov 26, 00:0013.3N 110.2W110 kt957 mbHurricane
Nov 26, 06:0014.1N 110.2W130 kt934 mbHurricane
Nov 26, 12:0015.2N 110.2W120 kt943 mbHurricane
Nov 26, 18:0016.3N 110.2W115 kt947 mbHurricane
Nov 27, 00:0017.4N 109.8W110 kt951 mbHurricane
Nov 27, 06:0018.5N 109.3W95 kt963 mbHurricane
Nov 27, 12:0019.3N 108.8W85 kt970 mbHurricane
Nov 27, 18:0020.0N 108.2W75 kt978 mbHurricane
Nov 28, 00:0020.7N 108.8W60 kt987 mbTropical storm
Nov 28, 06:0021.2N 109.1W40 kt994 mbLow
Nov 28, 12:0021.7N 109.0W35 kt1002 mbLow
Nov 28, 18:0022.4N 108.7W30 kt1007 mbLow
Nov 29, 00:0023.1N 108.3W30 kt1008 mbLow
Nov 29, 06:0023.5N 107.9W25 kt1009 mbLow
Nov 29, 12:0024.2N 107.7W20 kt1010 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.