The 2016 season

Hurricane Georgette (2016)

Hurricane Georgette reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between July 21, 2016 and July 30, 2016, with a lowest pressure of 952 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Georgette. Open it to see storms, cones and warnings on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

The storm

Basin
Eastern Pacific
Dates
July 21, 2016 to July 30, 2016
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
952 mb (28.11 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 1274 km (792 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
160 nmi (296 km, 184 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
140 kt (161 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP082016

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 21, 00:009.5N 111.0W25 kt1008 mbLow
Jul 21, 06:009.7N 111.7W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 12:0010.0N 112.4W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 21, 18:0010.5N 113.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 00:0011.1N 114.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 06:0011.6N 115.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 22, 12:0012.1N 116.6W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0012.6N 117.9W50 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 00:0013.0N 118.9W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 06:0013.4N 120.0W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 12:0013.6N 121.0W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 23, 18:0013.8N 121.8W60 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jul 24, 00:0014.1N 122.7W65 kt993 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 06:0014.5N 123.5W70 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 12:0014.9N 124.3W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Jul 24, 18:0015.4N 125.1W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 00:0016.0N 125.8W105 kt961 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 06:0016.6N 126.4W115 kt952 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 12:0017.2N 127.0W110 kt956 mbHurricane
Jul 25, 18:0017.7N 127.6W100 kt964 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 00:0018.0N 128.0W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 06:0018.1N 128.2W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 12:0018.2N 128.3W65 kt988 mbHurricane
Jul 26, 18:0018.3N 128.4W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 00:0018.6N 128.5W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 27, 06:0019.0N 128.7W35 kt1006 mbLow
Jul 27, 12:0019.5N 129.3W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 27, 18:0020.0N 130.1W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 28, 00:0020.4N 131.1W30 kt1007 mbLow
Jul 28, 06:0020.6N 132.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 28, 12:0020.7N 133.1W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 28, 18:0020.8N 134.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 29, 00:0020.7N 134.9W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 29, 06:0020.5N 135.9W20 kt1011 mbLow
Jul 29, 12:0020.3N 137.1W20 kt1012 mbLow
Jul 29, 18:0020.1N 138.4W20 kt1012 mbLow
Jul 30, 00:0020.0N 139.6W20 kt1012 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2016

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.