The 2017 season

Hurricane Kenneth (2017)

Hurricane Kenneth reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between August 17, 2017 and August 27, 2017, with a lowest pressure of 951 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Kenneth, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2017 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 17, 2017 to August 27, 2017
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
951 mb (28.08 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 973 km (605 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
10.3
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
90 nmi (167 km, 104 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
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
140 kt (161 mph)
Fastest the center moved
15 kt (17 mph)
Identifier
EP132017

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 17, 12:0013.2N 111.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 17, 18:0013.5N 112.4W25 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 18, 00:0013.9N 113.4W25 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 18, 06:0014.2N 114.6W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 12:0014.5N 115.9W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 18, 18:0014.7N 117.2W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Aug 19, 00:0014.9N 118.5W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 06:0015.1N 119.9W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 12:0015.3N 121.4W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0015.5N 122.9W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 00:0015.7N 124.3W55 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 06:0015.9N 125.6W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 20, 12:0016.1N 126.8W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 20, 18:0016.3N 127.8W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 00:0016.5N 128.8W95 kt967 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 06:0016.9N 129.7W115 kt951 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 12:0017.5N 130.5W115 kt951 mbHurricane
Aug 21, 18:0018.1N 131.2W105 kt959 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 00:0018.8N 131.8W95 kt966 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 06:0019.5N 132.4W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 12:0020.3N 132.9W75 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 22, 18:0021.2N 133.4W65 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 23, 00:0022.2N 133.8W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 06:0023.2N 134.2W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Aug 23, 12:0024.1N 134.8W40 kt1002 mbLow
Aug 23, 18:0024.9N 135.4W35 kt1004 mbLow
Aug 24, 00:0025.6N 136.0W35 kt1005 mbLow
Aug 24, 06:0026.3N 136.5W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 12:0027.0N 136.7W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 24, 18:0027.6N 136.6W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 00:0028.0N 136.3W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 06:0028.1N 135.9W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 12:0028.2N 135.5W35 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 25, 18:0028.4N 135.1W30 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 26, 00:0028.7N 134.9W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 26, 06:0028.9N 135.0W25 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 26, 12:0029.0N 135.2W25 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 26, 18:0029.1N 135.4W25 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 27, 00:0029.2N 135.5W20 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 27, 06:0029.3N 135.6W20 kt1013 mbLow
Aug 27, 12:0029.3N 135.7W15 kt1015 mbLow
Aug 27, 18:0029.2N 135.8W15 kt1017 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.