The 2019 season

Hurricane Alvin (2019)

Hurricane Alvin reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between June 25, 2019 and June 30, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 992 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Alvin, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2019 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
June 25, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Peak strength
Category 1, 65 kt (75 mph)
Lowest pressure
992 mb (29.29 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 390 km (242 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
2.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
50 nmi (93 km, 58 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
80 kt (92 mph)
Fastest the center moved
14 kt (16 mph)
Identifier
EP012019

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jun 25, 12:0014.6N 103.8W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 25, 18:0015.1N 105.1W25 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jun 26, 00:0015.3N 106.5W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 26, 06:0015.2N 107.7W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jun 26, 12:0014.6N 108.7W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jun 26, 18:0014.3N 109.7W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 00:0014.5N 110.7W45 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 06:0015.0N 111.6W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 12:0015.6N 112.6W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 27, 18:0016.3N 113.7W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 00:0017.0N 114.8W65 kt992 mbHurricane
Jun 28, 06:0017.8N 116.0W60 kt995 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 12:0018.6N 117.1W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Jun 28, 18:0019.3N 118.0W50 kt999 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 00:0019.8N 118.8W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Jun 29, 06:0020.2N 119.5W30 kt1006 mbLow
Jun 29, 12:0020.5N 120.1W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 29, 18:0020.8N 120.5W25 kt1007 mbLow
Jun 30, 00:0021.2N 121.0W20 kt1008 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2019

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.