The 2021 season

Hurricane Linda (2021)

Hurricane Linda reached Category 4 in the Eastern Pacific between August 9, 2021 and August 24, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 953 mb.

Radar

Reflectivity now over Hurricane Linda. 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
August 9, 2021 to August 24, 2021
Peak strength
Category 4, 115 kt (132 mph)
Lowest pressure
953 mb (28.14 inHg)
Landfall
No; closest approach 30 km (19 mi)
Accumulated cyclone energy
25.4
Tropical-storm-force wind reached
100 nmi (185 km, 115 mi) from the center at its widest
Hurricane-force wind reached
30 nmi (56 km, 35 mi) from the center at its widest
Eyewall radius at its peak
15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
Overall size
250 nmi (463 km, 288 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
Peak gust in the best track
140 kt (161 mph)
Fastest the center moved
16 kt (18 mph)
Identifier
EP122021

Radar at PHMO as it neared land, Aug 24, 00:00 UTC

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
17 in 2 reports from 1 states and marine areas

State by state

State or marine areaDeathsInjuriesDamageEvents
Hawaii0017

What was recorded

13 high surf, 4 heavy rain.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Aug 9, 12:0012.1N 98.2W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 9, 18:0012.3N 99.1W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 10, 00:0012.5N 99.8W30 kt1008 mbLow
Aug 10, 06:0012.9N 100.6W30 kt1008 mbTropical depression
Aug 10, 12:0013.4N 101.5W35 kt1006 mbTropical storm
Aug 10, 18:0013.9N 102.3W40 kt1004 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 00:0014.1N 103.2W45 kt1002 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 06:0014.1N 104.2W50 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 12:0013.8N 105.1W55 kt998 mbTropical storm
Aug 11, 18:0013.7N 105.7W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 00:0013.8N 106.2W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 06:0014.1N 106.8W60 kt993 mbTropical storm
Aug 12, 12:0014.5N 107.4W65 kt991 mbHurricane
Aug 12, 18:0015.0N 108.2W65 kt990 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 00:0015.5N 109.2W70 kt987 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 06:0016.0N 110.1W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 12:0016.6N 111.2W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 13, 18:0017.2N 112.3W100 kt966 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 00:0017.7N 113.3W105 kt964 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 06:0018.2N 114.3W105 kt962 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 12:0018.6N 115.5W115 kt953 mbHurricane
Aug 14, 18:0018.9N 116.5W115 kt953 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 00:0019.2N 117.7W110 kt957 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 06:0019.2N 118.7W105 kt961 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 12:0019.1N 119.7W100 kt965 mbHurricane
Aug 15, 18:0018.9N 120.7W95 kt969 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 00:0018.7N 121.6W95 kt969 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 06:0018.3N 122.5W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 12:0018.0N 123.3W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 16, 18:0017.8N 124.1W85 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 00:0017.7N 125.0W80 kt978 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 06:0017.6N 126.0W75 kt982 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 12:0017.5N 126.9W80 kt980 mbHurricane
Aug 17, 18:0017.6N 127.8W85 kt977 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 00:0017.7N 129.0W90 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 06:0017.9N 130.1W90 kt972 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 12:0018.1N 131.3W95 kt970 mbHurricane
Aug 18, 18:0018.5N 132.5W90 kt974 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 00:0019.0N 134.0W80 kt981 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 06:0019.4N 135.5W70 kt989 mbHurricane
Aug 19, 12:0019.6N 137.0W55 kt997 mbTropical storm
Aug 19, 18:0019.6N 138.7W45 kt1003 mbLow
Aug 20, 00:0019.8N 140.3W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 20, 06:0019.9N 141.8W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 20, 12:0020.0N 143.3W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 20, 18:0019.9N 144.7W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 21, 00:0019.9N 146.1W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 21, 06:0019.9N 147.3W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 21, 12:0020.0N 148.1W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 21, 18:0020.3N 148.9W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 22, 00:0020.6N 149.7W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 22, 06:0020.7N 150.7W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 22, 12:0020.9N 151.7W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 22, 18:0021.0N 152.7W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 00:0021.0N 153.8W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 06:0021.0N 154.8W40 kt1006 mbLow
Aug 23, 12:0021.0N 155.5W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 23, 18:0021.2N 156.2W35 kt1007 mbLow
Aug 24, 00:0021.1N 157.4W30 kt1009 mbLow
Aug 24, 06:0020.8N 158.7W25 kt1011 mbLow

Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2021

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.