Hurricane Rick (2021)
Hurricane Rick reached Category 2 in the Eastern Pacific between October 22, 2021 and October 25, 2021, with a lowest pressure of 977 mb, and made landfall. It killed 1 people directly, by the National Hurricane Center’s count.
Track and intensity
The whole track of Hurricane Rick, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 2021 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
- October 22, 2021 to October 25, 2021
- Peak strength
- Category 2, 90 kt (104 mph)
- Lowest pressure
- 977 mb (28.85 inHg)
- Landfall
- Yes
- Accumulated cyclone energy
- 6.7
- Tropical-storm-force wind reached
- 70 nmi (130 km, 81 mi) from the center at its widest
- Hurricane-force wind reached
- 20 nmi (37 km, 23 mi) from the center at its widest
- Eyewall radius at its peak
- 15 nmi (28 km, 17 mi)
- Overall size
- 120 nmi (222 km, 138 mi) to the outermost closed isobar
- Peak gust in the best track
- 110 kt (127 mph)
- Fastest the center moved
- 12 kt (14 mph)
- Identifier
- EP172021
Deaths and damage
The sources count different things and are not added together.
National Hurricane Center
1 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.
Landfall
| Time (UTC) | Where | Position | Wind | Pressure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 11:00 | Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacan, Mexico, 22 km away | 17.9N 102.0W | 90 kt (104 mph) | 977 mb |
Landfall points the US agencies flagged in the best track. The nearest town is named from the site’s gazetteer, not from the report.
Track
| Time (UTC) | Position | Wind | Pressure | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 12:00 | 12.7N 100.3W | 30 kt | 1007 mb | Tropical depression |
| Oct 22, 18:00 | 12.9N 100.8W | 35 kt | 1005 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 00:00 | 13.2N 101.1W | 45 kt | 1001 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 06:00 | 13.7N 101.2W | 60 kt | 995 mb | Tropical storm |
| Oct 23, 12:00 | 14.4N 101.4W | 75 kt | 983 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 23, 18:00 | 14.9N 101.8W | 80 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 00:00 | 15.1N 101.8W | 80 kt | 978 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 06:00 | 15.4N 101.6W | 80 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 12:00 | 15.7N 101.5W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 24, 18:00 | 16.0N 101.4W | 75 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 00:00 | 16.5N 101.5W | 80 kt | 979 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 06:00 | 17.2N 101.8W | 90 kt | 977 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 11:00 landfall | 17.9N 102.0W | 90 kt | 977 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 12:00 | 18.1N 102.1W | 85 kt | 980 mb | Hurricane |
| Oct 25, 18:00 | 19.0N 102.5W | 50 kt | 997 mb | Tropical storm |
Other Eastern Pacific storms of 2021
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- Tropical Storm BlancaEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm CarlosEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm DoloresEastern Pacific · 2021 · 3 deaths
- Hurricane EnriqueEastern Pacific · 2021 · 2 deaths
- Hurricane FeliciaEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm GuillermoEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm JimenaEastern Pacific · 2021
- Hurricane HildaEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm IgnacioEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm KevinEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm OmaisEastern Pacific · 2021
- Hurricane LindaEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm MartyEastern Pacific · 2021
- Hurricane NoraEastern Pacific · 2021 · 3 deaths
- Hurricane OlafEastern Pacific · 2021 · 1 death
- Hurricane PamelaEastern Pacific · 2021 · 2 deaths
- Tropical Storm TerryEastern Pacific · 2021
- Tropical Storm SandraEastern Pacific · 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.