Hurricane Elida (2020)
Hurricane Elida reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between August 8, 2020 and August 14, 2020, with a lowest pressure of 971 mb.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Elida, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2020 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.
The storm
- Basin
- Eastern Pacific
- Dates
- August 8, 2020 to August 14, 2020
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 971 mb (28.67 inHg)
- Landfall
- No; closest approach 257 km (160 mi)
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.2
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 60 nmi (111 km, 69 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 10 nmi (19 km, 12 mi)
- Overall size
- 150 nmi (278 km, 173 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 105 kt (121 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 15 kt (17 mph)
- Identifier
- EP092020
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
0 direct deathsnone recorded in the United States
The season table in NHC’s report archive, final report. Direct deaths are those caused by the storm’s own wind, water or surge, anywhere in the world.
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 March 2026.
- Deaths
- 0 (0 direct, 0 indirect)
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- none recorded
- Crop damage
- none recorded
- Events recorded
- 1 in 1 reports from 1 states and marine areas
State by state
| State or marine area | Deaths | Injuries | Damage | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What was recorded
1 flash flood.
What forecast offices wrote
From the Storm Events narratives, unedited.
A spotter reported flash flooding from a slow moving thunderstorm which made roads impassible in Pine Mountain Club. A nearby Acurite 5 in 1 weather station reported 1.95 inches of rain in one hour.
Kern, California · Flash Flood · Aug 16, 00:15 UTC
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 00:00 | 12.6N 97.9W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 8, 06:00 | 12.9N 99.0W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 8, 12:00 | 13.4N 100.0W | 25 kt | 1008 mb | Low |
| Aug 8, 18:00 | 14.1N 101.0W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 9, 00:00 | 14.9N 102.1W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Aug 9, 06:00 | 15.6N 103.4W | 35 kt | 1006 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 9, 12:00 | 16.3N 104.7W | 40 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 9, 18:00 | 16.9N 105.9W | 45 kt | 1003 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 10, 00:00 | 17.5N 107.0W | 50 kt | 998 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 10, 06:00 | 18.1N 108.1W | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 10, 12:00 | 18.7N 109.2W | 60 kt | 993 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 10, 18:00 | 19.2N 110.3W | 65 kt | 990 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 11, 00:00 | 19.8N 111.4W | 75 kt | 983 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 11, 06:00 | 20.4N 112.4W | 80 kt | 978 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 11, 12:00 | 21.1N 113.5W | 90 kt | 971 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 11, 18:00 | 21.7N 114.8W | 90 kt | 971 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 12, 00:00 | 22.2N 116.0W | 80 kt | 976 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 12, 06:00 | 22.7N 117.1W | 65 kt | 988 mb | Hurricane |
| Aug 12, 12:00 | 23.1N 118.3W | 55 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 12, 18:00 | 23.5N 119.3W | 45 kt | 1000 mb | Tropical storm |
| Aug 13, 00:00 | 24.1N 120.0W | 35 kt | 1004 mb | Low |
| Aug 13, 06:00 | 24.8N 120.4W | 30 kt | 1006 mb | Low |
| Aug 13, 12:00 | 25.4N 120.7W | 25 kt | 1007 mb | Low |
| Aug 13, 18:00 | 26.0N 120.9W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
| Aug 14, 00:00 | 26.6N 120.9W | 20 kt | 1009 mb | Low |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm AmandaEastern Pacific · 2020 · 40 deaths
- Tropical Storm BorisEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm CristinaEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical stormEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane DouglasEastern Pacific · 2020
- Unnamed tropical depressionEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm FaustoEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane GenevieveEastern Pacific · 2020 · 6 deaths
- Tropical Storm HernanEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm IselleEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm JulioEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm KarinaEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm LowellEastern Pacific · 2020
- Hurricane MarieEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm NorbertEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm OdalysEastern Pacific · 2020
- Tropical Storm PoloEastern Pacific · 2020
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.