The 2019 season

Hurricane Flossie (2019)

Hurricane Flossie reached Category 1 in the Eastern Pacific between July 28, 2019 and August 7, 2019, with a lowest pressure of 987 mb.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Hurricane Flossie, 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
July 28, 2019 to August 7, 2019
Peak strength
Category 1, 70 kt (81 mph)
Lowest pressure
987 mb (29.15 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 98 km (61 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
7.8
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
120 nmi (222 km, 138 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
20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi)
Overall size
180 nmi (333 km, 207 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
85 kt (98 mph)
Fastest the center moved
19 kt (22 mph)
Identifier
EP072019

Radar at PHKM as it neared land, Aug 6, 06:00 UTC

Deaths and damage

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

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Jul 28, 12:0011.1N 106.8W25 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Jul 28, 18:0011.7N 108.6W30 kt1007 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 00:0012.2N 110.4W30 kt1006 mbTropical depression
Jul 29, 06:0012.5N 112.1W35 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 12:0012.5N 113.8W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Jul 29, 18:0012.5N 115.5W50 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 00:0012.3N 117.1W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 06:0012.1N 118.6W55 kt1001 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 12:0012.2N 119.9W60 kt998 mbTropical storm
Jul 30, 18:0012.5N 121.2W65 kt995 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 00:0013.0N 122.4W70 kt990 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 06:0013.3N 123.8W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 12:0013.6N 125.2W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Jul 31, 18:0013.8N 126.6W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 00:0014.1N 128.1W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 06:0014.5N 129.5W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 12:0015.0N 131.0W55 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 1, 18:0015.6N 132.5W55 kt995 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 00:0016.2N 134.0W60 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 06:0016.6N 135.6W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 12:0016.9N 137.1W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 2, 18:0017.3N 138.8W55 kt994 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 00:0017.7N 140.3W50 kt996 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 06:0018.1N 141.7W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 12:0018.4N 142.9W50 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 3, 18:0018.6N 143.9W45 kt1003 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 00:0018.8N 145.0W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 06:0018.9N 146.1W40 kt1005 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 12:0018.9N 147.1W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 4, 18:0018.9N 148.0W35 kt1007 mbTropical storm
Aug 5, 00:0018.9N 149.2W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 06:0019.2N 150.6W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 12:0019.5N 152.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 5, 18:0020.0N 153.0W30 kt1009 mbTropical depression
Aug 6, 00:0020.6N 154.1W30 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 6, 06:0021.4N 155.3W30 kt1010 mbLow
Aug 6, 12:0022.4N 156.2W30 kt1011 mbLow
Aug 6, 18:0023.6N 156.8W30 kt1012 mbLow
Aug 7, 00:0024.7N 157.1W30 kt1013 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.