The 2017 season

Hurricane Fernanda (2017)

Hurricane Fernanda reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between July 11, 2017 and July 23, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 948 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Fernanda. 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 11, 2017 to July 23, 2017
Peak strength
Category 4, 125 kt (144 mph)
Lowest pressure
948 mb (27.99 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 723 km (449 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
28.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
25 nmi (46 km, 29 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
200 nmi (370 km, 230 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
150 kt (173 mph)
Fastest the center moved
12 kt (14 mph)
Identifier
EP062017

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 May 2026.

Deaths
0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
Injuries
0
Property damage
none recorded
Crop damage
none recorded
Events recorded
8 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Hawaii008

What was recorded

8 high surf.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 11, 18:0012.2N 108.4W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 00:0012.2N 109.4W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 06:0012.1N 110.2W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 12:0012.0N 111.0W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 12, 18:0011.9N 111.8W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 00:0011.8N 112.6W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 06:0011.7N 113.5W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 12:0011.5N 114.5W55 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 13, 18:0011.3N 115.5W65 kt995 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 00:0011.1N 116.5W75 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 06:0011.0N 117.4W85 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 12:0010.8N 118.3W95 kt972 mbHurricane
Jul 14, 18:0010.7N 119.3W110 kt961 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 00:0010.7N 120.3W125 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 06:0010.8N 121.3W125 kt948 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 12:0011.0N 122.3W120 kt953 mbHurricane
Jul 15, 18:0011.3N 123.5W115 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 00:0011.6N 124.7W115 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 06:0011.9N 125.8W115 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 12:0012.2N 126.9W115 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 16, 18:0012.5N 127.9W115 kt955 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 00:0012.8N 128.8W110 kt956 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 06:0013.1N 129.7W110 kt957 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 12:0013.5N 130.5W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Jul 17, 18:0013.9N 131.2W100 kt963 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 00:0014.4N 131.8W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 06:0014.9N 132.4W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 12:0015.4N 132.9W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Jul 18, 18:0015.9N 133.5W90 kt971 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 00:0016.4N 134.1W85 kt976 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 06:0016.8N 134.7W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 12:0017.1N 135.3W75 kt983 mbHurricane
Jul 19, 18:0017.4N 135.9W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 00:0017.7N 136.6W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Jul 20, 06:0018.0N 137.5W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 12:0018.1N 138.7W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jul 20, 18:0018.1N 139.9W45 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 00:0018.3N 140.9W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 06:0018.4N 142.1W45 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 12:0018.5N 143.2W40 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 21, 18:0018.6N 143.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 00:0018.7N 144.4W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 06:0018.9N 144.9W35 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 12:0019.1N 145.9W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 22, 18:0019.4N 146.9W30 kt1009 mbLow
Jul 23, 00:0019.9N 147.9W30 kt1009 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2017

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.